Hermann Hesse's Demian
Train rolling into station.
Newspaper boy: Extra Extra! Titanic sinks major loss of life.
Professor: This year of 1912, we are going to start on a new curriculum. We are going to teach the general theory of evolution in the classroom as standard procedure. Oh yes and tonight's homework assignment will be a 500 word essay about the Crimean that happened just a few years ago. That will be all. Class is dismissed!
In the schoolyard.
School bully: I want your lunch money today and everyday. Now and forever, bitch.
Emil Sinclair: Uh, no!
School bully: You got a listening problem? Tomorrow bitch, or you will have a problem.
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The next day at school.
Max Demian: Hello. My name is Max. Max Demian. I walked past your house. The coat of arms on your house has a lot of meaning. There are arcane symbols with secret signiicance going back to mystery cults thousands of years old. I see that the school bully is bothering you. You must be ready to do something about it. Maybe we could get a gun and kill him. I will help you.
Emil Sinclair: No!
The next day:
Emil Sinclair: I don't know what you said to that guy, but he is very deferential to me whenever he sees me.
At the pub.
Demian: Emil what are you doing here at the pub?
Emil: (voice in drunken slur) I have been coming here every weekend for the past few months, uuurrrgggghhhh!
Demian: There is a deeper part of you which knows why you have decided to become a pub crawler, but that same part of you will one day convince you to quit.
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At the Demian residence.
Emil: Demian, it would seem that I have fallen for your mother. I can't stop thinking about her!
Demian: She knows. We are a very progressive family. She sent this note, you can read it to yourself.
Emil reading note: Once upon a time there was a man who loved a star. He wished for it so much that one day, he jumped across a chasm. However, mid way, he hesitated and fell. Love completely or not at all.
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Train station train rolling in.
Newspaper boy: Extra, Extra, June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot. War is declared in Europe!
Emil Sinclair: Max, I see that you have enlisted too.
Max: Yes, and there is the very real possibility that one of us will not make it alive through this thing.
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