Status Updates From The Magic Mountain

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'..... If someone doesn't make sure that the best, most expensive wines are served at his dinners, people simply don't go, and his daughters end up old maids.'

As they walked he could not help remarking that he wondered how long the director would have let him lie there if he had not himself mentioned the time was up.

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'..... There was a young numismatist here who was feverish; and since he was feverish one could clearly make out cavities on his photographic phthisis - and died. The autopsy revealed there was nothing wrong with his lungs and that he had died of some coccus infection or other. '

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One should speak of monotony, of an abiding now, of eternalness.

'I was articulating my doubts that the words 'human being' and 'perfect health' could ever be made to rhyme.

Eternal Soup and Sudden Clarity - Hans Castorp has been assigned three weeks of bed rest for his cold. He is awaiting a time when he will have an
X-ray to reveal more about the soft spots on his lungs. Within the assigned three weeks, Joachim visits him at least ten times a day. Hans Castorp requests the visit of Lodovico Settembrini who talks to him about life. Settembrini will help him with his daily exercises.