In this novel's frame narrative, the title character gives the narrator a look that pierces "our whole epoch" and goes "right to the heart of all humanity" during a lecture. At the end of this novel, the title character declares that "one day I would learn how to laugh." Characters in this novel meet a stenographer named Dora while shooting the occupants of passing cars. (-5[1])A location in this novel contains "countless doors" with inscriptions like "Downfall of the West" and "Mutabor". This novel's (10[1])protagonist speaks with Goethe (GEER-tuh) at the Black Eagle (10[2])tavern. (10[1]-5[1])Hermine introduces this novel's (10[1])protagonist to a saxophonist named Pablo, who takes him to a place advertised "For Madmen Only," the Magic (10[3])Theater. For 10 points, Harry Haller learns that he is the title mythical creature in what novel by Hermann Hesse? ■END■