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In a novel by this author, a dying man gives a “perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking” smile. A boy created by this author dreams about a sparrow hawk and sees the Mark of Cain (20[1])on his classmates. Before LSD sessions, (20[2])Timothy Leary advised reading a book by this man whose protagonist hears the “song of the thousand voices.” The Gnostic deity (20[1])Abraxas (20[3])is studied by (20[2])Emil (20[1])Sinclair in this (20[2])author’s (20[3])novel (20[2])(*) Demian. (10[4])His grandfather’s (10[3])time in Kerala inspired one of this author’s books in which a monk protects a man from snakes by a river. The title character of that novel by this author abandons asceticism, (10[1])falls in love (10[1])with the courtesan Kamala, (10[1])meets the ferryman Vasudeva, (10[1])and gains enlightenment. For 10 points, (10[1])name this German author of Siddhartha. (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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