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And Ulysses is about a man taking a walk... It's that perception of 'useless' that The Glass Bead Game addresses for me, at a personal level. YMMV.
by kranner 16y ago
And Ulysses is about a man taking a walk...
It's that perception of 'useless' that The Glass Bead Game addresses for me, at a personal level. YMMV.
- barrkel 16y agoI don't think lispm was expressing a judgement on The Glass Bead Game, but rather pointing out the subtext of the book. The parallel with Ulysses is not applicable, IMHO; a day of a man's life is just the ostensible surface of the book, not its subtext.
- lispm 16y agoThe glass bead game is never really described in the book. It does not serve any real purpose. It is just an academic exercise with no grounding in reality. The players are academics who don't have to earn anything. The state pays for them. Even among other academics it is not clear if the glass bead game is useful. The main character feels this emptiness and tries to escape from that. The end is typical.