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Ever have a book read you so harshly you should be lying on its couch and paying it by the hour to psychoanalyze you?
“But in general we would emphasize the fact that people in Hans Castorp’s state regularly feel a craving for self-revelation, an impulse to confess themselves, a blind preoccupation with self, and a thirst to possess the world of their own emotions…”
— Jun 16, 2026 05:49PM
“But in general we would emphasize the fact that people in Hans Castorp’s state regularly feel a craving for self-revelation, an impulse to confess themselves, a blind preoccupation with self, and a thirst to possess the world of their own emotions…”
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Diane Evans
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This book is breaking my brain in all the best ways.
“Had not a researcher once, audaciously fanciful, referred to the “beasts of the Milky Way,” cosmic monsters whose flesh, bone, and brain were built up out of solar systems?”
I looked up Thomas Mann’s faith after this passage, and I love how you can see his questioning of faith/origins in the midst of this awe-inspiring take on the universe.
— Jun 19, 2026 09:52AM
“Had not a researcher once, audaciously fanciful, referred to the “beasts of the Milky Way,” cosmic monsters whose flesh, bone, and brain were built up out of solar systems?”
I looked up Thomas Mann’s faith after this passage, and I love how you can see his questioning of faith/origins in the midst of this awe-inspiring take on the universe.