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You’d be surprised how many pages are dedicated to Hans Castorp’s eyecontactship with Frau Chauchat

Everyone’s got something going on in this hospital

Got a hot hand here

Lotta math and dirigibles in here

“the dark promise revealed to Americans during the Civil War, obeying since then its own terrible inertia, as the Republican victors kept after Plains Indians, strikers, Red immigrants, any who were not likely docile material for the mills of of the newly empowered order.”

hard not to see this as a thematic sequel to Mason & Dixon. The line goes on around the world

“for Jacobites, like the Forces invisible that must ever create them, will persist. The Dispute did not end with Cromwell, nor Restoration,- nor William of Orange, nor Hanovers, - if English Soil has seen its last arm'd encounters, then the fighting-ground is now remov'd to America”

Boys read about the leaders of men and their battles
men read about competing cereal grains in the global peasants' diet

feeling like this is an american masterpiece

God, I love the French so much! Salute you all-encompassing artists

"The artists who have given us the most splendid visions of elegance have gathered the materials for them from among people who were rarely the leaders of fashion in their age, for the leaders of fashion rarely commission pictures from the unknown bearer of a new type of beauty which they are unable to distinguish in his canvases"

move your ass, mcclellan!!

First time reading since I was a kid. So far Grant is cleaning up in the Trans-Mississippi theater and Lee is AWOL

Reading Hegel’s descriptions of the universal spirit as a series of triangles while I listen to the Dune soundtrack. I can see movements of time. What a vibe.

"Sherman occupied Atlanta two months; then, restless and eager for action, he set the city on fire and started out on his terrible march to l Savannah. 'Behind us,' writes of his morning of departure, in a Ivrical mood rather rare with him, 'lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in the air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city.' The soldiers sang John Brown's Body. "

"Freud thought of the unconscious as somewhat like a hidden god...The unconscious never says No. The unconscious can only strive blindly to gratify its instincts in complete disregard of the superior strength of outside forces. Consciousness is alterable. Unconscious forces are indestructible. Yet it is something upon which civilization must draw
for the sake of its life"

oh look at that, the history of ideas is alive and it's kicking ass!

🚨 REORIENTATION OF THOUGHT INCOMING 🚨

got a hot hand here with this one, folks