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A pagan rainmaker created by this author lived "many thousands of years ago, when women ruled.” In another novel by this author, one character dies of snakebite shortly after revealing (15[2])that she gave birth to the title character’s son. Joseph Knecht (15[2])(“YO-sef kuh-NEKT”) reaches (15[1]10[1])the rank (-5[1])of Magister Ludi in (15[2])the title (*) activity of his last novel. In a novel by this author (10[2])of The Glass Bead Game, (10[2])the friend of the saxophonist Pablo, Harry Haller, stabs his (10[1])contrasting personality Hermine at a place designated “for madmen only”, the Magic Theater. (-5[1])Fort 10 points, name this German author of Siddartha and Steppenwolf. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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