I called up in my mind all my reminiscences of Max Demian, from the Kromer affair onwards.
A great deal he had formerly said came back to me.
To-day everything still had a meaning, all was of real concern to me!
And what he had said at our last, not very agreeable, meeting, about the libertine and the saint, suddenly crossed my mind.
Was it not just so with me? Had I not lived in filth and drunkenness, my senses blunted by dissipation,
until a new life impulse, the direct contrary of the old, awoke in me, namely the desire for purity, the longing to be saintly?
So I went on, from reminiscence to reminiscence. Night had long since fallen, and outside it was raining.
In recollection, as well, I heard it rain; it was the hour under the chestnut trees
when he first questioned me concerning Frank Kromer, so guessing my first secrets.
One after another these souvenirs came to mind, conversations on the way to school, the confirmation class.
And then I recollected my very first meeting with Max Demian.
What had we been talking about? I could not for the moment recollect, but I took my time, I thought deeply.
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