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You are describing very well indeed an aspect of music which has indubitably a moral value: namely, that her peculiarly life-enhancing method of measuring time imparts a spiritual awareness and value to its passage. Music quickens time, she quickens us to the finest enjoyment of time; she quickens—and in so far she has moral value. Art has moral value, in so far as it quickens.

this is gonna take me a while to get through, i am however enjoying the almost meditative pace of it

There’s a brief moment where Joachim says “we seem to be cured; no fever” and they go for a walk, and that could have been the end of the novel… but then they run into Frau Chauchat and Hans gets so excited by her saying “good morning” that he spikes a fever of 100.4 lmao

“It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl” - Hans Castorp listening to Settembrini and Naphta