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  1. @mms

    So gracious of you to admit to it!!

    An unnecessary fear.

    As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

    The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

    These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

    But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

    (As is every single Conrad novel.)

    #JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

  2. @mms

    So gracious of you to admit to it!!

    An unnecessary fear.

    As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

    The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

    These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

    But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

    (As is every single Conrad novel.)

    #JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

  3. @mms

    So gracious of you to admit to it!!

    An unnecessary fear.

    As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

    The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

    These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

    But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

    (As is every single Conrad novel.)

    #JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

  4. @mms

    So gracious of you to admit to it!!

    An unnecessary fear.

    As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

    The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

    These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

    But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

    (As is every single Conrad novel.)

    #JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

  5. @mms

    So gracious of you to admit to it!!

    An unnecessary fear.

    As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

    The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

    These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

    But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

    (As is every single Conrad novel.)

    #JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

  6. @mms

    "The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

    #JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

  7. @mms

    "The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

    #JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

  8. @mms

    "The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

    #JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

  9. @mms

    "The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

    #JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

  10. @mms

    "The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

    #JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

  11. "An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit."

    -- Thomas Mann, *The Magic Mountain*

    (welp, I guess I'm reading this now -- reading notes will go here)

    #FirstLines #ReadingNotes #NowReading #Bookstodon #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain