tome terms

After a morning run in Cleveland's Metroparks and a class of Yoga, I'm sitting in Phoenix Coffee, just having travelled through another hundred pages or so of Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi), which I was led to a few weeks ago by Ming the Mechanic's Glass Bead Games entry. I'm not up to saying much about the book, though it's fascinating -- anyway, Ming's post is enough to draw anyone towards it who should be inclined.

Free wifi at Phoenix allowed me to keep my computer next to the open book as a reference. Some of my search terms at Dictionary.com, Wikipedia and Google on this expedition:

pedagogue, refractoriness, aver, epigraphy, consign, rapprochement, amor fati, antipodal, courtesan, congeries, auspices, swabian piety, philology, ostensive, vicissitudes, cooper, refectories, nadir, suasion, furlough, chimera, sui generis, assiduous, parvenu

Run across in this webwander:

My formula for greatness in man is amor fati: that a man should wish to have nothing altered, either in the future, the past, or for all eternity. Not only must he endure necessity, and on no account conceal it-all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity-but he must love it.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo