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I have started reading Steppenwolf. I have finished the preface, which was narrated by a fellow lodger. Steppenwolf were a band in the sixties. They sang a song, 'Born to be wild'. Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way Boney M also sang a song called 'He was a Steppenwolf' on their album, Night Flight to Venus. They basically sang the synopsis of the book. In the 70s I sometimes wondered why Boney M sang songs about American gangsters from the 30s, Russian mountebanks from the early 1900s, and, here, a German book about depression and alienation. I would have thought they would be more interested in singing about black public figures like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. But then I wondered why the two girls from Abba didn't ditch the two losers.
