Woods's address, would anyone like to volunteer to write him and attempt to engage him in our discussion? No, am not into the book yet, have read 200 pages, have to force self. Yes, and for our Millennium, we break further new ground as we have no discussion leader for this one, so am looking for a Round Table illustration so we can sit in a True RoundTable format. I don't know why B&N always sends me two or three of the same thing. Good grief, Pat, bless your heart, can you take that back? I've got an extra one and didn't know what to do with it, what is that $40.00 Canadian? Do take it back and let me send mine! Yes, Helen, I do agree, let's climb this mountain together. Thomas Mann Politically The Magic Mountain He listens to the voice of duty' (reason) - 'and what he hears is the license of passion.'īackground History: the First, Second, and Third Reichs by Barbara St. 'What a piece of work is a man, and how easily conscience betrays him. Little Magic Mountain in the sense that we are all bringing theĬomplexities of our own experience here'-Charles 'We could look at the BC Online as our own Law of Ferment/Change/Progress Law of Obduracy There are no absolutes, that absolutes (extremes) are necessarily flawed It's a monumental work of ' erudition, sexual tension and intellectual ferment.' It's a dizzingly rich novel of ideas in which Mann uses a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps as a microcosm for Europe which before 1914 was already exhibiting symptoms of terminal irrationality. We will climb this mountain together and help each other along! Welcome to our Discussion of The Magic Mountain! Join us in our attempt to ascend this mountain of symbolism, philosophy, and ideas.

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