what is this hippie shit? I don't get it.
I was at a party in Richmond, Virginia, trying to figure out how to get drunk when this guy (who wouldn't touch liquor because it upset his stomach) took me aside and started describing a book he was reading by the guy who wrote Brave New World as I would recall for the next 8 years during which I occasionally attempted a futile Google. At Powell's on my honeymoon I discovered over a dozen books I'd never known Aldous Huxley had written, but nothing about a world in which certain souls are fingered like Jedi to spend their lives studying the most peculiar game you've ever tried to describe.
Of course Huxley never wrote such a book; the book was Herman Hesse's Magister Ludi and the game was the Glass Bead Game. Have you read it?
U: Don't know why that link is dead, but the same article is posted here.
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Posted by: sudama | June 27, 2004 2:25 AM
I read it years ago. One of lion index's and my architecture professors mentioned it many times in his lectures.
Posted by: zagg | June 28, 2004 10:56 AM
If I ever form a rock band, it will be called Magister Ludi. Cuz Steppenwolf's already taken.
Posted by: LionIndex | June 28, 2004 12:13 PM
LionIndex -
Why wait? If you live anywhere near Seattle you should send me an email. I'd do anything to sing in a band called Magister Ludi. I'd even roadie. Although I can't drive, long story.
Posted by: r@d@r | June 29, 2004 2:07 PM
1) Sorry, chap. I'm all the way at the other end of I-5.
2) I'd better learn to actually play something first.
3) I'd also like to name a band Siddhartha, but then we'd be accused of being Nirvana wannabes.
*rimshot*
Posted by: LionIndex | June 29, 2004 3:19 PM