![]() ![]() It is sad that from the time that Castorp spent time on the mountain up to the time I have been ill, not much has changed. Everything feels as if it has nothing to do with you. Entire decades can be swallowed this way. Without markers of passing time or stopping time to appreciate and celebrate with people you care about, upon reflection time disappears. But, from the other side, time warps the opposite. Time, when spent in days without variability, slows to a painful plodding that feels like it is the only thing you have ever done and ever will do. ![]() The points about time and our experience of it was the most interesting part of the narration of life on the mountain. I also admired his quest for knowledge that he never would have been able to experience if he hadn't been Ill. I was fascinated by the changes that he experienced over his time on the mountain. I think Mann captured the essence of a regular person (in his world). I actually liked the main character, Hans Castorp. The experience of illness is relevant to my life so I had a personal reason to stick it out. ![]()
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