Before going into the lyrics, it will be sensible to give a synopsis of Hesse’s novel, to give us a foundation on which to build an understanding and interpretation of the lyrics. Though the title character shares the first name of Siddhartha Gautama, Hesse’s book is not a fictionalized...
King’s emphasis) that killed him, the leeches, and therefore It, but I suspect that It, being a metaphorical killer (according to my interpretation), had given her and Patrick a shared hallucination, because the two are sharing a trauma. ...
Though the infamoussceneof Paul sodomizing Jeanne was, of course, just simulated sex, Schneider was actually traumatized during the filming; she “was crying real tears” and complained of feeling “humiliated and…a little raped.” The scene was not originally in the script, and she would have...