From http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Faustus —
Design from 1514
"One of those bells that now
and then rings" — Song lyric
From http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=zauberberg —
From the Web today —
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Thomas Mann’s High Concept:
Magic Square Meets Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain Dramarama
Act purposefully! Think rationally!
Play IT as IT lays!
Related Reading —
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Saturday, January 10, 2026
But Seriously . . .
This suggests a review . . .
Meanwhile, at Davos . . .
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Sunday, August 24, 2025
For Red One
Also on November 11, 2005, a figure from this journal —
Students of myth may regard this hexagonal figure as a
snowflake . . . or, with a seventh dot added at the center,
a cube. For a religious interpretation of the snowflake,
see Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. For a
more secular, but still miraculous, interpretation of the
cube, see the oeuvre of R. T. Curtis . . . and Octad Space —
"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Midnight in the Garden of Hulu
From last night's "Seeing Things" post . . .
Other hallucinatory entertainment . . .
A related, but less hallucinatory, tale . . .
"Climb a mountain and turn around . . . ." — Stevie Nicks.
"I'm here for all of the witches." — Emma Watson.
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
Needful Things: Faustus at the Magic Mountain
Image from a Sunday, January 7th, 2024, post now tagged "A Seventh Seal" —
Related image from a "Mathematics for Davos" post of
Thursday, January 18, 2024 —
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Monday, January 16, 2023
A Magic Mountain for McCarthy
From my RSS feeds last night —
This journal on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 —
For those who prefer a "liturgical, ecstatic style" —
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
Into the Upside Down
(Title suggested by the TV series Stranger Things )
" 'Untitled' (2016) is the most recent painting in the show
and includes one of Mr. Johns’s recurring images of a ruler."
— Image caption in an article by Deborah Solomon
in The New York Times online, Feb. 7, 2018
From a Log24 search for "Ruler" —
Related art —
See also, in this journal, Magic Mountain and Davos.
Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Kulturkampf for Princeton*
Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938
A sequel to Princeton Requiem,
Gesamtkunstwerk , and Serial Box —
Fearful Symmetry, Princeton Style:
* See as well other instances of Kulturkampf in this journal.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Snow
"Hans Castorp is a searcher after the Holy Grail.
You would never have thought it when you read
his story—if I did myself, it was both more and
less than thinking. Perhaps you will read the
book again from this point of view. And perhaps
you will find out what the Grail is: the knowledge
and the wisdom, the consecration, the highest
reward, for which not only the foolish hero but
the book itself is seeking. You will find it in the
chapter called 'Snow'…."
— Thomas Mann, "The Making of
The Magic Mountain "
In related entertainment news…
Click image for some backstory.
Mann's tale is set in Davos, Switzerland.
See also Mayer at Davos.
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