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Nov 18Liked by Samantha Rose Hill

Hi Sam. I’ve taught and also just read The Magic Mountain twice lately. Here’s last years syllabus (in German) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtDM51KZOBLbEJqFqhmF1-lnmnSaHLiZcJNZoX4oe6Q/edit

And the chapbook from the soirée here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HaFv-HXv1ZO6ZYCIPOlL1jvGtezjhzg1/view?usp=drivesdk

And during the first summer of the pandemic I lead a Magic Mountain Book Club that was so delightful. Another pandemic project is the late Sven Walser’s deeply generous and beautiful reading of the novel which he did at the Ernst Deutsch Theater beginning in March 2020. So wonderful https://www.ernst-deutsch-theater.de/mediathek/lesung-der-zauberberg

Enjoy the book reading and the community you will create.

Best greetings from Davidson.

Scott

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Hi Scott! Lovely to hear from you. Thank you for sharing these resources! Are you doing anything for these anniversary years?

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I loved reading The Magic Mountain back about 8 or 9 years ago and it's been on my mind to read it again .. signing up!!

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Wonderful! I can't wait.

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Nov 17Liked by Samantha Rose Hill

I don’t recall if I recommended it to you but the third book in Remarque’s All Quit series, Three Comrades, is premised on the asylum theme of Magic Mountain. But Remarque brings in the war and the political unrest of the late 1920s. There’s also some auto racing—Remarque returns to these themes in his later novel Heaven Has No Favorites, which gets turned into the movie Bobby Deerfield. Three Comrades is very good and I reread it every so often.

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Ah, thank you! I will check it out. It rings a bell, but I haven't read it.

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Which audiobook version of TMM is good—there are two. I read it over the summer in undergrad (yes, I was that person) but that’s been 19 years now I guess! Plus now I understand myself as sick/disabled so it’ll be a very different read I think.

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The audible version! And I'll be working with the Woods translation.

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And now I’m getting an error message if I click on today’s video in browser and in the app…is it located someplace in the app that I could just navigate there?

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I just updated something! It should work fine now. Apologies! Question: did you receive it via email?

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Ah there it is on email and here

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I think the video might have been too long! Will it fix it for next Tuesday. Thank you!

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Thank you for the shared reading of The Magic Mountain. I just finished reading Olga Tokarczuk,'s homage and reply, The Empuseum and am looking forward to rereading Mann.

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