Hermann Hesse
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I’m fond of saying “two is the first number”
A former think-tank analyst explains his HipBone Games, an attempt to make Hesse’s Glass Bead Game playable, arguing that patterns need two linked concepts, so that the basic move is…
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By request — the ouroboros game
Responding to a reader’s request, the author gives examples of the ouroboros, the serpent biting its own tail, from Egypt, alchemy and Vedic and Upanishadic texts to film and art,…
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Moves in the Glass Bead Game
Explains how Hesse’s Glass Bead Game works by linking two shattered Catholic images, a statue of the Virgin Mary after the Sri Lanka church bombings and a chalice standing for…
