Hannah’s Reviews > The Magic Mountain > Status Update

i promise you i could NOT have anticipated that this book would contain a ouija board scene, of all things!!! thank you thomas mann halloween king

i would genuinely read an entire book that was just thomas mann describing opera to me

i love the buckwild interpersonal relationships going on here

“It is nonsense, of course, for a murderer to outlive his victim. The two of them, eye to eye, are alone together in a way that two people are alone in only one other similar circumstance, the one receptive, the other active - and they share a secret that will unite them forever. They belong together.” thomas!!!

I love all of the similar ideas/themes to Joseph and His Brothers - you can see so many seeds of thought planted here which come to fruition in Joseph, and I think in a way both books are trying to explore the same thing.

i remain convinced that the books people describe as too long and boring are actually the most interesting books of all time. my man is over here deconstructing the biological experience of time, and ppl complain?? for what???

"They do it out of constructive despair, if you want to put it that way, in honor of the practical joke of the circle, of eternity that has no permanent direction, but in which everything keeps coming back."

it’s okay hans, i, too, would convince myself i have tuberculosis just so i leave the world behind and live in the sanatorium discussing philosophy forever

you know you’re down bad when you’re reading the magic mountain by thomas mann as wish fulfillment/escapist fantasy huh