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What kind of crazy damn world was it when such ordinary human pleasures like cigarettes were so strictly controlled?
Hans Castorp.
Hugo Brückmann?’
People in big cities don’t care much about race and religion.
Altonaerstrasse.
Château-Salins.
Baronville,
Vintrange
I even believe in the Fourth Republic.’ But of course, I didn’t. No one did – no more than they believed in the Third Republic.
‘Well, why not be a nihilist? A man has to believe in something.’
night on Bald Mountain.
Rudolf Caracciola
the Hotel Bad Horn on Lake Constance.
it was the kind of place where they grew leather shorts in window boxes.
Karl Wasserstein.
I know the leads and the hoses on this car like I know the veins on my own cock.
Velveeta,
herm
Shockheaded Peter.’
The man had the forensic skills of a rubber plant.
Puttelange-aux-Lacs,
casuistic
clochard,
Sarreguemines.
Renault Frégate
Karlsbrunn
Watzmann
Franz and Erich Sass
Croesus
In Germany love is as rare as a Jew with a telephone.
Max Amann?’
Philippe Pétain
Karl Ferdinand Braun
English punch
Schiaparelli.
Raxon
all the top Nazis reminded me of someone in a horror movie.
mendacious
Lutz Moik,
‘Does it hurt?’ ‘Only when I laugh, so really not at all.’
Hermann Storked
A German diver.
in spate
Fritz Todt.
Weimaraner.
coffered
Roger Ackroyd
Trying to be an honest cop in Germany is like playing croquet in no-man’s-land.’
Leibniz
Maybe she wasn’t the kind of woman I thought she was. Women never are what you think they are.
My favourite book was Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
