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There were moments of tension and of gratifying release of tension between the two of them (because to what extent Madame Chauchat was affected remains to be seen), then at least in Hans Castorp's own fantasies and emotions.

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In any case, being in love inflicted on him all the pain and all the joys that the condition brings with it the whole world over.

We are describing everyday events; but even everyday events look peculiar if they grow in peculiar soil.

Freedom - Hans Castorp ha been at the sanatorium for seven weeks. He now writes to his family to let them know his stay at the sanatorium is now of a patient not as a visitor. He has accumulated himself to the daily routines.

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"Illness and despair," Settembrini said, "are often only forms of depravity."

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He had closed his eyes, because in the pitch-black night it made no difference if they were open or shut.

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You could make out clinical apparatus f various sorts: glassware, switch boxes, and tall vertical gauges, but also a camera-like box on rolling stand and rows of glass photographic plates set along the walls. You couldn't tell if you were in a photographer's studio, a darkroom, or an inventor's workshop and sorcerer's laboratory.

My God, I see It ! Hans Castorp and Joachim Ziemssen are taking X-rays to find out more about the spots on their lungs. Hans Castorp is fascinated to see his skeleton. Joachmin only wants to get better and go home. Hans Castorp attraction to Madame Chauchat grows deeper. He makes more inquiries about her. It draws attention.

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'..... If someone doesn't make sure that the best, most expensive wines are served at his dinners, people simply don't go, and his daughters end up old maids.'

As they walked he could not help remarking that he wondered how long the director would have let him lie there if he had not himself mentioned the time was up.

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'..... There was a young numismatist here who was feverish; and since he was feverish one could clearly make out cavities on his photographic phthisis - and died. The autopsy revealed there was nothing wrong with his lungs and that he had died of some coccus infection or other. '

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One should speak of monotony, of an abiding now, of eternalness.

'I was articulating my doubts that the words 'human being' and 'perfect health' could ever be made to rhyme.

Eternal Soup and Sudden Clarity - Hans Castorp has been assigned three weeks of bed rest for his cold. He is awaiting a time when he will have an
X-ray to reveal more about the soft spots on his lungs. Within the assigned three weeks, Joachim visits him at least ten times a day. Hans Castorp requests the visit of Lodovico Settembrini who talks to him about life. Settembrini will help him with his daily exercises.