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“Ah, yes it is will and truly dreamed. I have taken stock. I will remember. I will keep faith with death in my heart, yet well remember that faith with death and the dead is evil, is hostile to humankind, so soon as we give it power over thought and action. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no dominion over his thoughts. And with this - I awake.” p.496. Oh, Engineer!

Reading The Magic Mountain while you're feeling sick, lying on the couch, having taken your temperature, feels like the way you're meant to read this novel.

Also: I LOVE Settembrini's ramblings and I wish I could go on a hike and/or to a pub with him. And see his "dry and subtle smile curling the Italian's lip beneath his flowing moustache".