Yet do what I would, the idea was there, and gradually identified itself with the approaching religious ceremony.
I was ready to celebrate it in a different fashion from the other confirmation candidates.
For me it would mean admission into a world of ideas, with which I had become acquainted through Demian.
In those days it happened that I had another discussion with him; it was just before a lesson.
My friend was wrapped up in himself and took little pleasure in my talk, which was perhaps rather precocious and bombastic.
“We talk too much,” he said with unwonted gravity. “Wise speeches have no value at all, absolutely none.
You only escape from yourself. To escape from yourself is a sin. You should be able to creep right into yourself, like a tortoise.”
We entered the schoolroom immediately after. The lesson began.
I took pains to listen, and Demian did not disturb me in my effort.
After a while I began to feel something peculiar at my side where his place was,
a sort of emptiness or coolness or something like that, as if his seat had suddenly become vacant.
The feeling became oppressive and I turned round. There I saw my friend sitting, upright and in his customary attitude.
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