![]() ![]() He kept the game going – the defenestration proceeded apace – but, in the kind of fillip of humiliation in which senior academics once specialized, he also kept turning the pages. That crusty emeritus spotted the title – Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse – snatched it up and began reading. These were invariably college undergraduates, and one of these unfortunates, prior to his defenestration, set his battered paperback on the side of the board. Once upon a time, in the ratty, bustling, pre-Bank of America days of Harvard Square, a wonderfully reserved old Harvard emeritus and former Bonn bookseller used to spend some of his afternoons holding down a public chessboard against all comers. ![]()
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