6Mar2001Magister Ludi(The Glass Bead Game), by Hermann Hesse, Holt-Reinhart-Winston, 1969 (Orig. 1943; Nobel Literature prize, 1945-6) We recommend this book to those of you interested in William James Sidis. Hesse, a staunch pacifist, is much like Sidis in that particular regard. Hesse...
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He drained his glass; almost half his drink gone in one go. “They’re quite a sight.” Fanshawe thought he could make out the first beginnings of a bead of sweat on the younger man’s hairline, even within the cool embrace of the chugging air-conditioning. He lit a cigarette of his...