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Took a rest cute of my own from this book, staying two nights at Chateau Nabokov. Well rested, I return now to finish Castorp’s time at the Berghof

Well, he did warn us in the foreword that this would be a book that takes its time! Just got through the section on Hans’ grandfather, which seemed both brief and lengthy at the same time — reflective and lingering on details but in a way that feels genuinely profound. And the prose of Lowe-Porter’s 1927 translation is a hearty meal. Buckling up for 700 more pages in that vein!