He rounds on Hesse, who wrote his iconoclastic novel The Glass Bead Game, which Lindqvist adored, between 1931 and 1943.
When Stockhausen was 18, and a music-student in war-devastated Cologne, he read Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.
When Stockhausen was an 18-year-old music student in war-devastated Cologne, he read Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.
Increasingly staffed by former X Factor contestants, it is an almost perfectly self-contained light-entertainment ecosystem – The Glass Bead Game of synthetic pop.
Farther north, beside a pair of in-line skates, Boris Bozhdarov had been reading Hermann Hesse's last novel, "The Glass Bead Game," which is set in a post-apocalyptic future among an elite cult of intellectuals.
Step by step, young Josef Knecht is initiated into the mysteries of the "glass bead game" that forms the focal point of Castalian social and academic life - until he starts to question its rules and falls out with the order.
At different times, as we wander around in the company of Lockhart's disaffected son, Jeffrey, the place reads like a new age retreat, a Bond villain's lair, a Matthew Barney installation, and the rarefied monastic academy of Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.
The University of Sussex podcast series The Glass Bead Game features an episode featuring Natalie Jeffers by Will Hood at www.theglassbeadgame.co.uk/episode/blacklivesmatter/ The case that proved to be the catalyst in launching Black Lives Matter was the killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, in 2012.
On the second floor, books — among them Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," "Nabokov's Butterflies," a signed copy of Jean Genet's "Notre Dame des Fleurs," a catalogue for a Brancusi show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and "The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine" — are stacked next to a television set and shelves full of videotapes and DVDs.
Perhaps we should be grateful that such gifts are so rare, for if they were not, how many of us would prefer to remain cocooned in these glass-bead games?
