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Lizzy Oppenheimer English period 6 November 12, 2002 The Art of Living As one hopes for ultimate revelation and satisfaction for the protagonist in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, one hopes for Christopher Lloyd's progression from his intellectual and sexual innocence as an adolescent to the fulfillment of maturity, in Julian Barnes' Metroland. Ironically, Christopher's ultimate dream of happiness ends up being down a path he philosophically despised as an adolescent. However, Adolescent philosophies, like all philosophies, are lifeless. Dehydrated soup, for example, is powder until one adds water upon which it becomes soup. Similarly, philosophies are just empty words until one adds a person through which they become a lifestyle. Paying attention to the smallest detail of life as an adolescent, such as fascination with travel and foreign languages, Barnes, in a mélange of French and English in first person as Christopher, creates a loving, yet ironic and quite...

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