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Still very good as Charlie Citrine moves from one adventure to another.

Steven has his crisis of conscience after listening to the priest give his visions of hell. He confesses his sin of impurity, and feels relieved and ready to begin a new life.

His Catholic life is quite hard.

The tragic comic one of the novel is really quite delightful.

Lotte and Goethe reunite at his dinner party, but he seems more interested in her daughter.

Is there anything Goethe doesn’t think about? Chapter 7 is long and it’s all Goethe.

In his morning monologue, Goethe claims that love is only known in old age since youthful love lacks intellect and spirit that only arrives with “love in age.”
I would agree.

And now August arrives.

So far, the subject of desired/undesired fame toward Charlotte is paramount as well as her secret of why after 44 years she came to Weimar to have it out with Goethe.

Harry Haller is quite unsympathetic in his constant analysis of his and other’s actions. His constant self-criticism wearies. His new “teachers” attempt to draw him out of his dreary existence, and they are somewhat successful, but can anyone change at 50?

In a revolution you took away the privileges of an aristocracy and redistributed them. What did equality mean? Did it mean all men were friends and brothers? No, it meant that all belonged to the elite. Killing was an ancient privilege. This was why revolutions plunged into blood. Guillotines? Terror? Only a beginning—nothing. There came Napoleon, a gangster who washed Europe well in blood.