Jennifer nyc’s Reviews > The Magic Mountain > Status Update

I’m not sure audio is the best format to absorb this philosophical work: “Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself…”

The conversations remind of the ones in college, a small, safe place away from it all to explore big questions. Gosh, that was one of the best things then. Am I in need of that anymore?

"Writing beautifully was almost synonymous with thinking beautifully, and from there it was not far to acting beautifully. All moral conduct and all moral perfection emanated from the spirit of literature…”