When Peters\' mother suffered a nervous breakdown in the early 1920s, young Fritz was adopted by his aunt, Margaret Anderson, and her partner, Jane Heap.
This stunning memoir covering Peters\' first years at the Institute retains a child\'s naive perspective while offering photorealistic recall of Gurdjieff, the workings of his intentional community, and the eccentric characters who lived there..
He was a father figure whose influence Peters never shook, and always struggled to integrate.
Thus, Fritz became perhaps the most intimate student of this mercurial mystic, but Gurdjieff was more than just a teacher to Fritz.
You make more work for me.
I am the only one who teaches what you ask.
Gurdjieff answered with a sigh, Your answer makes life difficult for me.
I think it is called psychology or maybe philosophy.
Everything about man.
The boy replied, I want to know everything.
When Fritz first arrived there, Gurdjieff asked him what he wanted to learn.
Gurdjieff, founder of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau.
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Anderson and Heap introduced Peters to many influential figures, but most significant to him was G.
They moved to France where they raised Fritz among Gertrude Stein\'s salon. cummings, Hemingway, and other avant-garde greats. e.
They were editors of The Little Review, the literary magazine that launched the writings of James Joyce, e.
When Peters\' mother suffered a nervous breakdown in the early 1920s, young Fritz was adopted by his aunt, Margaret Anderson, and her partner, Jane Heap
