[Billthedrill]

I didn't get Siddhartha when I was forced to read it, but I certainly did when I grew up. I don't think that's a young person's novel.

"Oh friends, not these sounds," he wrote in an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung at the outbreak of war.

Beethoven reference, for anyone who cares. It took a very, very long time to get from there to joy.

[Billthedrill]

Schiller reference, technically. Never mind.