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Siddhartha, Brutha and Yossarian

Dur­ing this rainy sea­son I revis­ited two old favourites: Sid­dhartha by Her­men Hesse and Small Gods by Terry Pratch­ett. The two pro­tag­o­nists, Sid­dhartha and Brutha, despite the vast gulf of time and space – inter­gal­lac­tic in this instance – that sep­a­rate them, share a sim­i­lar quest which they per­sue with almost fool­hardy zeal. In their