![]() She teaches him "the game of living for each fleeting moment." She teaches him to appreciate jazz (Harry's a serious Mozart snob). ![]() She promises to pull him out of his abyss and makes him promise to kill her once she has done so. He has promised to kill himself by the time he is 50, although right when we meet him he wonders if "it isn't time to follow the example of Adalbert Stifter and have an accident while shaving." It's the first of many times he considers suicide.Įventually he meets a beautiful young woman named Hermine who teases him for taking himself too seriously, admonishes him for standing apart from the enjoyments of others when he has never had the courage to find humour – "perhaps the most inborn and brilliant achievement of the spirit," as Hesse calls it. ![]()
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