“My God, rather than come to pass it would have been better<\/p>\n
for the Jews and everyone else, let alone the Egyptians,<\/p>\n
to have perished in those days and forthwith of a violent<\/p>\n
and becoming death instead of this dismal pretense<\/p>\n
of dying by inches that we go in for today.<\/p>\n
Yes indeed!”\u00a0 Herman Hesse.<\/p>\n
Excerpted from “Steppenwolf”, 1929.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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