THE SERENITY PLAYER: In which I tell you why you should read The Glass Bead Game.

…There is no term in this book that is not interrogated: not the serenity Knecht offers a distraught Plinio, nor the exalted experience and self-direction he claims for himself at the end of the book. No final answer is given to the book’s underlying question: What is the life of the mind for?

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