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The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Marcus du Sautoy loved it
When I read that book I thought, 'Yes, this is the game I want to play.' That's what I try to do in the work that I do, to combine my love of music, to explain why music and mathematics have these common themes, to bring mathematics alive through the theatre, write the books I do. That's my ultimate aim, to become a master of the glass bead game.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Sep 2014

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.