if you like Hesse; you might like T.S. Eliot....

Gnod - The global network of dreams: "Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along. Gnods intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn 'understanding' its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don't know about."

(i checked the 'author' section of this site. i found some adjacencies to that i'd like to explore. see the music and movie sections also...jim)