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Wow. Hans is having such an intense time! and Mann is really weaving all his elements together in a tight web of signification. And I get to feel like a genius because I think I’m catching some of what he’s up to, as it happens, and pat myself on the back when he takes another step along the path I noticed.
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Settembrini is our first interesting character so far! Sleazy as he may be. The cousins are still pretty blank slates. Although maybe Settembrini is starting to rub off on Castorp, who has begun to philosophize about the nature of time…
— Feb 25, 2026 07:18AM
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Well, he did warn us in the foreword that this would be a book that takes its time! Just got through the section on Hans’ grandfather, which seemed both brief and lengthy at the same time — reflective and lingering on details but in a way that feels genuinely profound. And the prose of Lowe-Porter’s 1927 translation is a hearty meal. Buckling up for 700 more pages in that vein!
— Feb 19, 2026 06:26AM
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Maybe it helps to be pausing every few paragraphs to type up an annotation to try to guess what he’s getting at, so that when it’s confirmed one page later, you feel like a prophet… Whereas maybe the intended experience is just to receive it in a continuous stream of accumulating meaning.
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