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Anonymous Mon Aug 29 13:59:46 2016 No.8450999 [Reply] [Original]

>You will never goof around with Hans Castorp, discussing the illusion of time.
>You will never just walk quietly with Joachim Ziemßen.
>You will never listen to Naphta and Settembrini having brilliant discussion
>You will never pretend to speak French with Madame Chauchat.
>You will never joke around with Behrens.
>The 20th century is over.
Why even live?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 15:36:44 2016 No.8451294 >>8450999 > It's The Whole Novel is a Mouthpiece for Schopenhauerian Philosophy > Why even live? Ask Schoppy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 15:51:09 2016 No.8451330 >>8451294 It's more about the comfy lifestyle mixed with the introspection.

Anonymous Mon Aug 29 15:57:25 2016 No.8451348
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>>8450999
>Never hear Chauchat slam the door while having dinner
>Never make eye contact with her
>Never waste time with Karen knowing she will die
>Never learn to properly wrap yourself in a blanket
>Never experience the winter and summer blending together

Why even live?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 16:02:50 2016 No.8451366 >>8451348 I know man, it sounds so great, makes me nostalgic for things I never did.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 16:04:24 2016 No.8451373 File: 1.93 MB, 235x240, 1438782008539.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >yfw Naphta shoots himself

Anonymous Mon Aug 29 16:10:44 2016 No.8451394
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>>8451366
Hold me Anon.

I hated the ending, it felt so rushed, summoning Joachim, then killing Settembrini, and Castorp suddenly leaving.

I wish Castop would have stayed for another 7-50 years, and I could have experienced every day with him.
I wish this book never ended and I could get TB and die with him in Davos

Anonymous Mon Aug 29 16:16:06 2016 No.8451424

>>8451394
I actually loved the ending, the climax with Naphta felt really unexpected and came out of nowhere and the rest of the seventh chapter kind of felt like some slice of life novel, it was so positively meandering. Mann's attitude regarding Hans was very unsentimental though, you've really warmed up to that goofy bourgeois avec une petite tache humide at the end, even if he kind of just stayed an observer for most of the novel.

>>	you guys Mon Aug 29 16:21:58 2016 No.8451448 >>8451294 >Doctors are psychoanalysits >Naphta is Lukakcs impersonated >Settembrini is a humanist >Pepperkorn Ah yes, definitely a mouthpiece of schopenhauerian philosophy

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 16:38:31 2016 No.8451498 >>8451448 >Doctors are psychoanalysts I don't remember this, it's been 3 years since I read it though.

>>	you guys Mon Aug 29 16:41:25 2016 No.8451510 >>8451498 It's especially Dr. Krokowski. Maybe you remember the presentations of his and the supernatural-meetups

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