Climbing the Magic Mountain
Even though I gave up on Doctor Faustus, part of me thinks that I need to do more with Thomas Mann. Not sure why, exactly. That's just where I am at right now. So I started reading his masterwork, The Magic Mountain. It's a very weird book. If you look online at anything written about it, no one can quite explain why or how it's good. There are no drama…
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