Ron,<br><br>The best way to read books: juggle three or four, on all topics, then read large passages of which ever catches your interest...sometimes to the...
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roncriss
Aug 1, 2000 9:05 pm
All,<br> I tried to post this last night but for some reason the old web site was telling me it was already sent, and to check back in a few minutes to see it...
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agathe_to_ulo
Aug 2, 2000 6:35 pm
lol...<br><br>Hans must get used to not getting used to anything at all!<br><br>Love that, as much as I love the idea of that always slightly sunburned face of...
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paritoshuttam
Aug 3, 2000 12:17 pm
Hi folks,<br> Any ideas why the thermometer is so significant in the novel? It crops up every now<br>and then. - Paritosh....
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agathe_to_ulo
Aug 3, 2000 8:51 pm
The thermometer:<br><br>The silent sister-- measures illness, disturbance, inner state, chaos... one of the uses of the thermometer is to measure temperature:...
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roncriss
Aug 10, 2000 7:39 pm
Hi!<br> I just got back from a mini vacation. I drug MM along with me and read a few pages. Didn't get very far. They went back to eating again, found out a ...
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paritoshuttam
Aug 11, 2000 12:26 pm
Hi<br> I agree with that interpretation, Agathe. The state of disease is of course, one of the cornerstones of the book. In most of Mann's works, there is some...
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tlazova
Feb 16, 2001 1:43 pm
Hi, everybody. I have a fear of communicating via e-mail /posting messages or, in other words - by not meeting with people but I am doing it now anyway. What ...
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roncriss
Feb 23, 2001 6:28 am
Tomi,<br> Well I have to confess that my reading of the book petered out. It's a great book, but I just got swept along by other things. Of course I've been...
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evilnasty2002
Jun 2, 2002 3:33 am
hello even though the discussion about the novel has seemingly petered off, assuming that some of you still have interest in this novel if you'd like to...
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wotan722000
Jul 30, 2002 1:54 am
1) Which English translation would you recommend to someone who has never read Mann before?, 2) Has an audiocassette of the book come out yet?, 3) Doesn't LOST...
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wotan722000
Aug 17, 2002 10:42 pm
If so, how can it be ordered?...
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nekkid99
Nov 7, 2002 5:43 am
I been reading The Magic Mountain for the first time. Jetzt ein hundert fuenfzig seiten so weit! Schon so bald!...
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nekkid99
Nov 7, 2002 5:55 am
Check out this leitmotif link: http://www.filmsound.org/gustavo/leitmotif-revisted.htm...
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nekkid99
Nov 14, 2002 5:39 am
In the early chapters of MM, there is a jocular reference to something translated into English as blue peter (or blue henry by another translator). The...
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nekkid99
Jan 11, 2003 1:18 am
What to read after TMM? I considered T. Mann's Joseph novels and possibly completing my reading of Proust but decided on something livelier. So I read...
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M. Evans
malgwyn_evans
Jan 12, 2003 1:57 am
... Such a quiet list. Delaney's Driftglass short story collection was a turning point in my adolescence. Nothing I've read by him since has ever had as much...
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themagicmountain@yaho...
Jul 8, 2003 7:37 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the themagicmountain group. File : / Live...
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themagicmountain@yaho...
Jul 8, 2003 7:37 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the themagicmountain group. File : / Free...
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themagicmountain@yaho...
Jul 8, 2003 7:37 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the themagicmountain group. File : / Net...
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homme25062002
Aug 9, 2003 5:45 pm
Hi, I read the book two or three years ago, but I am still under the impression I had when I closed it: this is the best book I have ever read! I believe that...
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mtmacedo2003
Oct 6, 2003 12:28 pm
Hello, I´m trying to find a link posted 3 years ago by agathe_to_ulo. It´s about the part of Walpurgis Night written in French that in John Woods´...
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mtmacedo2003
Oct 6, 2003 12:36 pm
Sorry, The link in the Links Section is the updated one. But it´s also unavailable. Marcelo...
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malgwyn_evans
Dec 6, 2003 8:58 pm
Dear List Administrator: Please turn off the files section of this list, so we don't get any more junkmail from idiots like giwibupili808. ... From:...
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roncriss
Dec 6, 2003 9:08 pm
I run the joint. Due to spammers like giwib I have made the group restricted and all members must be approved by me. Its too bad others will have to suffer...
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M. Evans
malgwyn_evans
Dec 7, 2003 2:21 am
Thanks Ron, I run a the Fringe Mason List (Settembrini would be proud), and I had to shut off attachments, and approve all members as well. Some of the people...
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faure3
Jan 22, 2004 2:43 am
I'd be very grateful if someone could answer a question for me. I've read through about one-third of The Magic Mountain so far (the Woods translation) and I'm...
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Phillip Holcomb
iwe2
Feb 5, 2004 1:01 am
This is my first posting to the group. I have developed over the past several years two different sets of annotations: one for the Lowe-Porter translation, now...
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ustunozgur
Feb 9, 2005 11:06 am
I guess using the full name, "Hans Castorp" helps the reader visualise Castorp as a real personality, so, Mann might be emphasizing the importance of...
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nelot34
May 19, 2005 2:27 am
I am of an age that I have personal memories of TB. While I was a child I have vivid memories of my favorite uncle hospitalized in a sanalorium and having...
