Andrew Stewart’s Reviews > The Magic Mountain > Status Update

These people are sick, OK, I get it. But folks sure seemed to have an inordinate dread of drafts back in the day. Always pulling up their blankets and moaning when someone opened a curtain. Only rich people mind you, the half freezing peasants didn’t have a luxury of worrying about a slight breeze in the drawing room.

Its a bit weird that as I am reading this, I’m hearing about tuberculosis in the news. It’s not something I’ve ever heard about really outside of Books. So I did a search, and there was one of these sanatoriums a couple miles from where I live. I actually spent a bit of time there for addiction that’s over lsharing but true. I didnt knoq it was built as a TB hospital, it became a mental health hospital

half done, mind half blown. I stop all the time to say wait, what? The discourses on time arent accidental and they are messing me up a bit. I thought Hans was there weeks he was there one day. I felt like I was reading it for weeks it was a couple of days. This is a different book.

“Oh, how prettily you express it. You’ve finally put a little variety into poor Tantalus’s life. You’ve let him roll the boulder for a change.”