The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Author:Thomas Mann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Bildungsromans, Sanatoriums, Literary, Coming of Age, Germany, General
Published: 2011-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

Evenings he gazed at the stars. He was seized with an interest in the passing year— he who had already spent some twenty-odd cycles upon this earth without ever troubling his head about it. If the writer has been driven to talk about the vernal equinox and suchlike, it is because these terms formed the present mental furniture of our hero, which he now loved to set out on all occasions, here too surprising his cousin by the fund of information at his command.

“The sun,” he might begin, as they took their walks together, “will soon be entering the sign of the Crab. Do you know what that means? It is the first summer sign of the zodiac, you know. Then come Leo and Virgo, and then the autumn, the equinox, toward the end of September, when the rays of the sun fall vertically upon the equator again, as they did in March, when the sun was in the sign of the Ram.”

“I regret to say it escaped my attention,” Joachim said grumpily. “What is all that you are reeling off so glibly about the Ram and the zodiac?”

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