The Emotions of Generalities

It would not take hours, not an hour… perhaps only 5 to 10 minutes listening to the public mass media acclaims of unity and emotional experience,… the significance of viewing the eclipse all altogether… to recognize why Hesse would write such a book as Steppenwolf. In fact, Hermann Hesse’s 1927 words on Amerika in his autobiographical Steppenwolf are even truer now.