"The Magic Mountain" "Episode 1" "The story of Hans Castorp, which we would like to tell here, took place very long ago." "It ls, so to speak, covered with historical rust and must be told with verbs whose tense is of the farthest past." "This story is far older than its years." "It doesn't owe the depth of its past to time." "Rather, it takes place, or to avoid any present tense," "It took place back then, long ago," "In the old days of the world before the Great War, with whose beginning so many things began, whose beginnings, It seems, have not yet ceased." "It will soon be 14 years since we held you over this basin, and the water with which you were baptised trickled down into it." "Here." "Your father's name is inscribed here." "And here is my name." "And here is your great grandfather's name." "Here, your great great grandfather." "And here, your great great great grandfather." "And here...." "Here is your great great great great grandfather." "Excuse me." "Yes?" "What do you want?" "May I borrow a pencil, please?" "Yes, if you promise to return it." "You see?" "it's simple." "You only have to push it up." "Castorp!" "Who gave you permission to leave your seat?" "Hans Castorp was neither a genius nor an idiot." "He was bright enough to meet the demands of a modern schooling system." "As soon as he decided to study ship engineering, he was aware that the decision could have easily been otherwise." "At the end of his exams, his Uncle, Consul Tienappel, with whom Hans had lived after his parents' death, sent him on vacation in the Alps." "He was to visit his consumptive cousin, who was staying In a sanatorium in Davos." "It was the height of summer when Hans Castorp decided to take the trip, already the last week of July." "He planned to stay three weeks." "Davos-Dorf!" "Well, dear cousin, how was your trip?" "Good, thank you." "You don't mean to tell me that you're still ill?" "You look as if you've already received your lieutenant's commission and were just home from maneuvers." "I wish it were so." " Your baggage claim ticket, please." " Yes. it's only one suitcase." "I have a carriage." "You're coming back home with me, aren't you?" "Back home with you?" "When?" "In three weeks, after I have relaxed a bit, when I must begin working with old Wilms at the dockyard." "Why must you?" "Aren't you happy about it?" "Yes, of course, I mean...." "Engineering is a good profession, but it requires a lot of work." "Yes, the best profession to be is an officer." "Yes, Lance Sergeant." "But it can only be done with healthy lungs and no sputum, no rattling in the upper left lobe." "At my last regular checkup, the head doctor told me that I would likely have to stay another half year." "A half year?" "Are you crazy?" "You've already been here for a half year." "There isn't that much time in life!" "Ah, yes, time." "You wouldn't believe how they treat people's time here." "Three weeks are the same as a day to them." "He's from Sanatorium Schatzalp." "It lies somewhat higher up than ours." "They have to transport the bodies down on bobsleds in the winter because the roads are impassable." "The bodies?" "Some patients like to open their doors when they have an attack, so that it can be heard how sick they are." "Then they say the sicker they are, the higher their esteem." "Here you are." "On your right is a Russian couple." "I'm on your left." "What nice flowers." "Self-picked." "How kind of you." "What a nice room." "I'll have no trouble putting up here for a week or two." "An American woman died here the day before yesterday." "She had two first-class haemorrhages, and that was that." "But, of course, it was all thoroughly fumigated with formalin." "They say it's very effective, you know." "Fumigated?" "Yes, H2CO." "But it burns in your nose, doesn't it?" "Well, anyway, everyone back home warmly greets you." "Uncle Tienappel, Uncle James, Peter, and especially old Charlene." "She's very worried about you." "Uncle James drove everyone to be photographed, so that I could bring you this picture." "Now she's humming the "Marseilles"!" "She does it wonderfully." "Since age 12, she's been living in lung sanatoriums." "The bobsled is waiting for her." "I told you that in winter the corpses are brought down with bobsleds." "It makes no difference to the corpses!" "Yes, yes, yes." "Yes, it's first-rate that you've come." "She's going to check if there's still snow on the bobsled trail." "Yes, here we sit...." "Here we sit...." "Here we sit laughing, and yet I would have taken my officer's exam next month." "Instead, time is passing me by." "Good evening, Herr Ziemssen." "Might I introduce to you my cousin" "Hans Castorp from Hamburg, Herr Doctor Krokowski?" "He's just arrived." "We bid you welcome, Herr Castorp." "Have you come as a patient, if you'll pardon the question?" "No, by no means." "I'm...." "I'm only visiting here for three weeks." "A little relaxation will do me good, but thank God, I'm perfectly healthy." "You don't say." "In that case, you are a phenomenon of great medical interest." "You see, I've never met a perfectly healthy person." "So you'll not be requiring any medical attention, either physical or psychological?" "Oh, no, thank you so much." "In that case, sleep well, Herr Castorp, in full enjoyment of your outstanding health." "Sleep well, and good night." "This is a deathbed." "Just an ordinary deathbed." "Good morning." "My cousin Hans Castorp from Hamburg." "Fräulein Engelhart," "Miss Robinson," "Frau Stöhr." "Hello." "This is a very lively place." "It doesn't even seem Like a sanatorium." "You don't say." "When I got up this morning, my temperature was 00.1 degrees." "What will it be by this afternoon?" "I had the exact same temperature today." "Besides, I feel so terribly weak." "What would you like, sir?" "Cocoa, coffee, or tea?" "If it goes on like this...." "Tea, please." "I don't know what I should think anymore." "In the mornings, just before I wake up, my face feels so hot, as if my temperature was 104 degrees." "But my temperature is usually 00.5 degrees." "And then I get up, and a tremendous spin pulls me back to bed." "Oh, my dear Miss Engelhart, you don't know how much such attacks of dizziness can wear one down." "Doctor Blumenkohl barely says a word." "A real "blag up," as the English say." "Frau Robinson can confirm this." "A real "blag up."" "Black out." "Yes, "Black up.... out."" "And the whole thing takes about five minutes, at least." "There are your Russian neighbours." "It takes about 20 minutes before I can move my body again." "Sometimes I have dreams where I see the craziest things." "I do not wish to be introduced to them." "For example, today it felt like my husband had his feet in water." "Good morning." "The doctors!" "I can't stand people who slam doors." "The commanding figure is who we all admire, Director Behrens." "The gloomy one in black is his assistant, Doctor Krokowski." "He dissects the soul of his patients." "What?" "Dissects their souls?" "That's disgusting." "Ah, there you are." "My pleasure." "Would you also like to undertake treatment, like your cousin?" " Oh, no, Herr Director." " Good." "I spotted it at once that there's something so civilian, so comfortable, about you." "No rattling sabers Like our corporal here." "He constantly wants to leave!" "He won't give us six months!" "Even though we have such a lovely place here." "Well, your dear cousin will know how to better appreciate us." " There's no scarcity of ladies." " Good morning, Herr Director." "We have the loveliest ladies here." "Many of them quite picturesque, viewed externally, at least." "But you'll have to improve your colour somewhat, too." "Completely anaemic." "No doubt about it!" "Completely anaemic, just as I said." "Do you know what?" "I will use this opportunity to give you some modest advice, quite sine pecunia, of course." "I would suggest you do as your cousin does." "In a case like yours, there is no wiser course to take." "And build up your protein." "Well, Ziemssen, you slept well, yes?" "Great!" "Then get on with your stroll." "But no longer than half an hour." "And afterwards stick the mercury cigar in your mouth." "I'll want to see your chart on Saturday." "Your cousin should measure, too." "Measuring never hurts." " Good morning." " Morning, Herr Director." "Don't you want to measure yourself, too?" "No." "What for?" "I'll do the treatments with you, but I'll leave the measuring to you." "If I only knew why I have these palpitations all of a sudden." "As well as this endless heat in my face." "Is my face terribly red?" "You're studying Russian?" "How much longer will the measuring take?" "Seven minutes!" "But they must be up already." "I like the measuring, five times a day, because then you know what a minute or seven of them actually amount to, here where the seven days of the week pass as quickly as they do!" "A minute, then, is as long as it seems to you when you measure yourself?" "A minute lasts as long as it takes the second hand of my watch to complete a circle." "But it takes such a varied length of time to our senses." "As a matter of fact, it is a motion." "That means we measure time by space." "From Hamburg to Davos is 20 hours by train." "But on foot how long is it?" "And in the mind, not a second." "These reclining chairs are very comfortable." "I wonder if I may take one with me to Hamburg." "Gong!" "Since my first question up until now, exactly one minute has passed." "No!" "Please, don't!" "I don't want to!" "I'm still fine!" "I'm still healthy!" "Please let me go!" "I'm scared!" "No!" "Please, don't!" "No!" "I don't want to!" "No!" "No!" "I don't want to!" "No!" "No!" "I don't want to die!" "No!" "I don't want to die!" "It's forbidden to look in other rooms." "Young lady, don't make such a fuss!" "Don't make such a fuss!" "A good cigar, and I feel secure." "It's like lying by the sea." "There's the sea, and one needs nothing more." "No work, no company." "Smoking is strictly forbidden here, but you're healthy." "You can do as you wish." "Healthy except for the anaemia." "That's never happened to me before." "It tastes like paper mâché and leather." "It will be fine." "It's probably because of the cursed face...." " Good afternoon." " Hello." "Am I terribly red in the face?" "Please walk ahead." "Hello." "She whistled." "She whistled out of her stomach." "No, not with her stomach." "That was Miss Kleefeld, the pride of the Half-Lung Club, because she can whistle with her pneumothorax." "With her what?" "Her pneumothorax, an operative insertion." "When one of the lungs is very ill, they make it stop functioning a while and fill it up with gas." "The gas doesn't last long and has to be renewed every two weeks." "And all of them in the club have this...." "Half-Lung." "They all have a filled lung." "That's why they formed a group." "My God, how can they be so very jolly despite their illness?" "Good Lord, they are so free." "Hello, Fräulein Marusja." "There's the gong." "You're such a pessimist!" "The way you acted yesterday was atrocious!" "Absolutely atrocious!" "For the last time, I'm not grateful!" "Yes, but you could be grateful!" "I hate tardiness." "I'll quickly wash my face and my hands." "There's no time for that now." "I'm sorry." "I'm not ill, but I'm sleepy." "I didn't hear the gong." "Tell me, do you eat anything other than yoghurt?" "Do you know that I'm able to cook 28 different varieties of fish sauce?" "My husband always told me," ""No one will believe you, and if they do, they will think it's ridiculous."" "But my husband loved every single one of them." "He told me to write down my recipes before I came here." "It might lead to something, or give someone joy." "Not every housewife is able to make 28 fish sauces, 28 different varieties of fish sauce, that is." "By the way, this morning I had my skin examined." "Please!" "Anyhow, this morning I had my examination, young lady." "And on the right up...." "And on the left down...." "Slowly, slowly!" "Who eats so fast that he chokes?" "Slowly!" "There, it's getting better." "It will get better." "Buongiorno!" "Gentlemen, buongiorno!" "No, please, gentlemen, don't get up." "My cousin Hans Castorp, Herr Settembrini." "Herr Settembrini is a literary man." "He wrote the obituary notices of Carducci, the Nobel Prize winner, for the German papers." "Oh, then you are just a guest here," "Like Odysseus in the Kingdom of Shades, am I right?" "May I ask how you are feeling?" "It is all still very new to me, and I'm still somewhat confused." " Confused?" " Yes." "Incredible." "Yes, and I also didn't sleep well, and Director Behrens immediately noticed that I'm anaemic." "Well!" "That's magnificent." "As it's so accurately written in the opera of your great maestro:" ""The bird catcher, I am." "Always cheerful."" "A sly type, the Director." "Maybe you didn't know it already." "He's an artist." "He paints with oil." "He enjoys it, and it's still not forbidden." "But I must add, he has melancholic tendencies." "Tell me, Herr Castorp." "Do you know our dear Directress already, too?" "She is distinguished from the Medici Venus by the fact that where the goddess has a bosom, our dear Directress wears a cross." "What a sarcastic man you are!" "Sarcastic?" "You mean malicious." "Herr Doctor Krokowski!" "Herr Castorp, I'll to tell you something." "Malice is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment." "Oh, please excuse me." "I apologize." "This is your seat this morning, isn't it?" "Here I am talking about progress, civilization, and enlightenment, too, and there you are, already standing behind me in person." " Gentlemen, please excuse me." " No, thank you." "Thank you." "An Italian?" "Is he seriously ill?" "I can't deny myself." "I must tell you, this man has but one thought in his head, and it is a filthy one." "I swear it." "Well, I'd like to start with the sauce for the blue carp, but maybe it's the wrong one to start off with, because it's a difficult one to prepare." "Experience is necessary." "This sauce is the queen of all of my sauces." "It's made with two tablespoons of the finest flour and half a ground nutmeg." "But what do you think...?" "Now I must know who this is!" "But, of course, a female." "That's Madame Chauchat, a charming woman." "French?" "No, she's Russian, but her husband might be French or of French descent." "I feel like I have seen her before." "Is that her husband?" "No, he isn't here." "He's never come here." "We don't know him." "She should learn to close a door properly and not always let it slam." "It's quite unbearable." "Herr Albin," "I beg you, please put the revolver away before an accident happens!" "My dear Herr Albin, spare our nerves and remove that dreadful object from view!" "But, ladies and gentlemen, Look how small and shiny it is." "But if I press right here, it will bite." " No!" " Shut your mouths and stop moving!" "I keep this revolver ready for the day when I can't stand this farce any longer, and I shall have the honour of paying my final regards." "One aims here and introduces this charming little foreign body directly into this interesting organ." "Herr Albin, stop!" "Shut your mouths, Ladies and gentlemen!" "I've had enough, and I won't play along any longer!" "Incurable." "Just look at me, ladies." "Incurable." "Grant me at least the freedom, which is all I can get out of the situation." "In school, when it was settled that someone was to be held back, nobody asked him any more questions, and he didn't have to do any more work." "I don't count anymore." "I can laugh at the whole thing." "She's a charming woman." "I don't feel good here." "I will have to leave soon." " Would you be offended?" " Leave?" "Do you have a home?" "I mean, where would you like to go?" "To Hamburg." "Why do you ask?" "Why do you think of leaving when you've just arrived?" "You can't judge from the first day." "It's still only the first day?" "Let's do it again." "Well, here I go!" "It was very simple." "You saw how I did it." "Show me what you still have." "And now I'd like to place the Jack next to the Queen." "Oh, well done!" "You have feelings, therefore you can express yourself...." "Stop with your piano playing." " Please, Fräulein Brandt." " Unbelievable." "Please, please!" "Help me, please!" "I don't want to leave!" "I don't want to go from here!" " I'm happy here!" " My dear Elly." "You've become healthy, and up here is no place for healthy people." "You'll have a good life down there." "Now, be good and go to the train station with your father, so you don't miss the night train." " No, no!" " Yes, yes." "No, I don't want to go!" "Take your hands off me!" "I don't want to go home!" "Take your hands off me!" "Here is my home!" "Here is my...." "Elly." " Elly, now, come on, be good." " No, no, no!" "Come, my dear." "Let's go to the train station together." "You'll be back in the fall." "You'll be back for another quarter of a year." "Quickly!" "Let's start singing." "Home, sweet home How I long to see you again" "Home, sweet home How I long to see you again" "Home, sweet home How I long to see you again" "I must explain the situation to you." "It was the beginning of May." "The lake was a few degrees above zero." "She went bathing in the lake, trying to contract some illness so that she could stay here, do you understand?" "But, alas, to no avail." "She was, and remained, quite healthy." "And how are you doing?" "I presume that you, Like most others here, have spent your first day here in, so to say, the horizontal." "Do you find this lifestyle dull?" "I'm not bored, yet I have this feeling that I've been here longer than one day." "As if I've become older and wiser." "As if you've become wiser." "Bravo!" "May I ask you a question?" "What is your age?" " Excuse me?" " I mean, how old are you?" "You'd like to know how old I am?" "Yes!" "Yes, I'd like to know how old you are." "24." "That means I'm in my 24th year." "I beg your pardon, but I almost didn't realize what you were asking." "Tell me frankly, do you think it is possible Frau Stöhr knows how to make 28 different kinds of fish sauces as she said?" "I must know if she said she could, or if I only imagined she did, and she didn't actually say it." "24 sauces, Signor Castorp?" "28." "28 fish sauces." "Not sauces in general, but special fish sauces." "Signor Castorp, I beg of you, please pull yourself together and stop talking this demoralized rubbish." "You are in your 24th year, you say?" "Oh, yes, you mean my age." "Signor Castorp, allow me to make a suggestion." "As you don't feel comfortable up here, pack your bags tonight and be gone tomorrow with the first suitable train." "You mean I should leave?" "When I've hardly come?" "No...." "Why should I try to judge from the first day?" "It can't be possible." "Who would dust their rug at this hour?" "Did you say something?" "I just thought someone was dusting his rug." "But it's my heart." "I'll tell you this." "I won't lie out on the balcony at night." "Everything has its limits." "I'll finish my cigar in the regular way." "It tastes vile, but I know it's good." "Whether you know it or not, it's ice cold, and I'm freezing to death!" "I even freeze in my bed!" "Is your summer over now?" "It's still the beginning of August." "A few more warmer days will come." "It seems like an eternity since you picked me up from the train station." "Eternity?" "I had always thought that a change of pace would make time pass more quickly, whereas monotony would make things more dull, but that's not true." "What one calls boredom is in reality a perverse shortening of time due to monotony." "What did you say?" "Oh, nothing." "I just wanted to tell you that I can rely on you since you're here." "This is quite a confusion." "Ah, you gentlemen did some shopping!" "Oh, nothing special." "We bought some blankets for my cousin." "For the rest treatments." "With this terrible cold in August," "I will undergo a few weeks of treatment, too." "Yes, blankets, for the treatment." "I'm suffering from the momentary cold and wet weather, too." "You cannot imagine what I have already suffered in this barbaric place." "For example, the people whose company I'm to share at the dining table." "To my right sits a beer brewer and across from him, his wife, who loses protein while becoming more stupid and apathetic." "I always thought uneducated people should be healthy and ordinary." "illness, however, makes people refined, intelligent, and special." "illness is something venerable, if I may say so." "Do you honestly mean to say that illness is something venerable?" "Excuse me if I do say that illness is nothing venerable." "illness means nothing but abasement." "A painful idea that it abases people." "To honour illness mentally is a mistake, and itself results in illness." "Engrave that into your memory for the future, my dear engineer." "Gentlemen." "My God, that was quite an aria." "What did I do to cause that?" "Something tightens inside of me when I think of Herr Settembrini." " He makes me nervous." " Oh, nonsense." "I feel quite uneasy around him because I often feel controlled." "Yes, that's not a bad word for it." "I had the definite feeling that he didn't approve of my having bought those blankets for the rest treatment." "Nonsense, it doesn't bother him." " Good day." " Hello." "Well, my innocent bystander, how are you?" "Thank you, only adjusting to the peculiar environment up here is difficult for me, even though it's already my fourth day." "You should really stay through the winter, but I've heard that you want to spend a mere eight weeks, correct?" " Three." " Oh, three!" "But that's just dropping by, not even worth taking off your hat and coat." "Well, just as you like." "Last stage." "He's gone through too many fiascos." "He guzzled the oxygen yesterday and today, the gourmand." "But he will probably be joining his ancestors by noon." "Well, my dear Reuter, did you sleep well?" "Fine, yes?" "How would it be if we crack another bottle?" "Good-bye." "I'll be back soon." "That was wonderful!" "One, two, three, four!" "And the little Russian girl who always giggles?" "You mean Marusja." "Do you love her?" "Beer, tobacco, and music, behold the fatherland!" "May I?" "Indeed, I have a mind for nationalism." "Don't you enjoy listening to music?" "Yes, but there is something only semi-articulate about music, something doubtful, irresponsible, indifferent." "And it's dangerous because it seduces us to take our ease beside it." "It ignites our emotions." "And yet, the real point should be to ignite our reason." "Yes, my distaste for music is political." "I've never heard anything like that in all my life." "Music is invaluable as the ultimate means for awakening our fervour, a power that draws the mind trained for its effects forward and upward." "Music alone is a dangerous opiate." "And for you in particular, my good engineer, it's completely dangerous." "But you're no longer listening to me now, engineer." "Excuse me." "At the well before the gate...." "This is also music, but more calming and less politically dangerous, Herr Settembrini!" " Excuse me." " Yes?" "What's wrong?" " May I borrow a pencil, please?" " Yes, if you promise to return it." "Hurry up, sir." "Mr. Krokowski's conference has just begun." "Of all our natural instincts, love is the most unstable and exposed, fundamentally apt to confusion and perversion." "There is nothing simple about the powerful instinct of love." "It is by its very nature composed of many elements." "Emotional obstacles and corrective instincts act to level and restrict the perversities of love, thus resulting in a sensible whole." "My God, Joachim, life is beautiful!" "It's about a fight of chastity against love, but how it plays out...." "And one of the things that make it so beautiful is the way women dress so alluringly." "But what sense does it all make when the woman is sick inside?" "Is there any point in her wearing gossamer sleeves to make men curious about her body?" "Her innerly sick body?" "Be quiet!" "Suppressed love is not dead!" "I understand why you forbid yourself to love the beautiful Marusja." "Absolutely sensible." "Absolutely." "Fulfilment in the darkest and most secret depths of the being." " What is he talking about?" " But then what is this form?" "This mask in which suppressed, concealed love will reappear?" "This mask, this form, is illness." "All illness is merely transformed love." "How well he said that!" "Come onto me, you who are troubled and full of transformed love." "You can all be helped." "The analysis will help you discover the dark unconscious of your illness." "Psychoanalysis relieves the hidden suffering, the shame, and the unfulfilled wishes that have manifested themselves as illness." "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen." "Thank you for your attention." "Bang!" "That's her." "You don't even have to look up to know who came in." "There she goes, lovely, Like a kitten to a bowl of milk." "Now she is greeting her table." "You really should look." "It is so delightful to watch her." "When she smiles and talks, a dimple forms in one cheek, but not always, only when she wants it to." "One has to love people like that, whether one wants to or not." "They may annoy us, but that is only one more reason for loving them." "She wears no rings, no earrings, I've noticed." "But she is a married woman, isn't she?" "Most certainly she is, but maybe she doesn't want to remind every man who she gives her hand to kiss of her marital bonds." "And besides, there's something so disillusioning about a ring." "No, no, no, my dear Marusja." "You have no clue." "It is generally always the case that other people know better about the illnesses of others than the ill person does himself." "And that you cannot stop your silly giggling most certainly has nothing to do with you having tuberculosis, which is not as obvious in you as it is in others." "A ring is a symbol of a woman's dependence, it seems to me." "And her husband?" "He never visits her?" "The other way around." "She visits him now and then, once a year." "Otherwise she goes between sanatoriums." "This is her third time here already." "Well, she is ill." "Certainly." "But not so ill that she would have to live in sanatoriums., separated from her husband." "I imagine her husband is one of those Russian officials that only drink and are raw and coarse." "Well, you have many prejudices against your lovely Minka." "Beware that you don't begin dreaming of her." "It's not nice of you to embarrass me with your insinuations." "I'm sorry, I don't understand." "You said," ""Beware that you don't begin dreaming of your lovely Minka."" "Yes, I called her Minka, but what is her real name?" "I mean her first name?" "I don't know." "I really don't know." "And you know Doctor Behrens thinks the same." "It has psychological causes." "And it originates from the land, the terrible land from which you came." "And those that were born on the other side of the Ural River give a bad impression of our Western civilization." "Only the families of the Czars and Princes that were educated by us can level with our psychological" "Please be quiet!" "First of all, this girl likely doesn't understand what you're saying, and secondly, Marusja cannot stop giggling by her own will." "When she is constantly provoked, she can't help but giggle." "And I forbid you to continue torturing this poor girl." "C L A W D I A." "Clawdia!" "Did you say something?" "No, no, I...." "I have the feeling that I'm getting a catarrh." "That would be upsetting." "When are you leaving?" "It should be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week." "You're lucky." "Room 34?" "Yes." "It's right." "I'm Frau Mylendonk." "Do you often catch colds?" "Doesn't your cousin often catch colds?" "How old are you?" "I'm turning 24." "Yes, it's the age." "But we don't want to talk about colds, dear child." "That's twiddle-twaddle from below." "Come over here." "You have the loveliest bronchial catarrh, I can see it in your eyes." "But catarrhs aren't caused by colds." "They come from an infection to which one is already susceptible." "The only question is whether what we have here is an innocent infection or one that is less innocent, all the rest is twiddle-twaddle." " Have you taken your temperature?" " No." "And why not?" "Don't you ever measure it?" "Yes, Frau Mylendonk, when I have a fever." "The point of taking one's temperature is to find out if one has a fever." "Do you have a fever or not?" "I really don't know." "And where is your thermometer?" "I don't have one." "I'm only here on a visit." "I'm healthy." "You sent for me because you're healthy?" "No, because I" "Caught a cold." "We've often seen such colds." "Here." "This is a harmless antiseptic." "It may do you good." "This one costs three francs fifty, and this one costs five francs." "It will be better to take the five-franc one." "It will last you a lifetime, if you properly take care of it." "So?" "Well?" "I'll take this one." "May I use it now?" "No, hurry, it will be on your bill." "Give it to me." "We must first drive it all the way down." "It will climb back up, wander right up the column, old Mercury." "So, here is your purchase." "Put it under your tongue for seven minutes, five times a day, and keep your lips nicely shut around it." "Good-bye, dear child." "Good luck!" "Aren't you coming to breakfast?" "Well, what's wrong?" "I have a slight temperature." "What does that mean?" "Do you feel feverish?" "I've felt feverish for a long time now, my friend, for the entire time." "But now it's a matter of precise fact." "I measured it." "You measured it?" "With what?" "With a thermometer, of course." "It's on the table." "It's only slightly elevated." "Yes." "It reads 00.5." "Then it's lowered somewhat." "It was 00.7." "Outrageous!" "There he is, the one with the beautiful green eyes." "Thank you." " Good morning." " Morning." "I won't drink any beer today." "It's better if I drink nothing today, at most a glass of water." "No beer?" "What's wrong with you?" "What a change!" "Did you sleep badly?" "I have a slight temperature." "It's minimal, 00.7." "You're telling us quite a story." "My, my, my!" "You are quite the secretive one." "You're quite the funny guy." "No, no." "At most I have the sniffles and some coughing." "Excuses, excuses." "Fever and sniffles, fever and sniffles." "We know all about it." "So, you must really have an examination." " Yes, really, an examination." " Yes, really, you must." "We have an appointment with the Director at nine o'clock." "It's all been taken care of." "You will finally know how satisfying coughing can be." "Big coughs have great advantages." "There is something delightful and pleasing about a tickle in the depths of your chest that gets worse and worse until you inhale strongly and deeply for it, in order to enjoy it as long as possible before it's squeezed out." "And sneezing is just as much fun." "The way you feel it swelling inside of you, until the explosion arrives." "But sometimes, they come in twos and threes, one right after the other." "I have to say, you're quite wicked, Signora Stöhr!" "May I ask permission to join your noble rounds, gentlemen?" "I cannot stand it over there any longer." " Please." " Sit down." "The beer brewer over there, Signor Magnus, just now he decided to give a psychological analysis." "The subject, of course, once again, Germany." ""Our beautiful Germany is nothing more than a big barracks," he says." "Yes, he actually says that." "Yet, there is a lot of proficiency behind it, even if one feels like one is in a barracks." "No matter for what price," "I won't trade our sterling qualities for the courtesy of other countries." "How does all the courtesy help me, when, in business," "I'm always betrayed in the end." "That's a very sensible viewpoint." "Excuse me, sir." "I couldn't take it anymore, and I quickly left." "Ah, you quickly escaped to take to paper!" "Oh, yes, paper!" "Oh, no, I, of course, mean the covering." "I see there's a completely different breeze here!" "Oh, yes, when one knows how to position one's words so well," "Signora Stöhr." "Am I permitted to ask about the progress of your health?" "My God, you know already." "One takes two steps forward and three steps back." "Two forward!" "Two steps forward and three steps back again." " Exactly like that!" " There seems to be something there." "There seems to be something there in the stories that are told everywhere." "Yes, secretive stories about astral women and lookalikes are being told." "You're mocking me, are you?" "No, no." "Not at all, Signora Stöhr, no." "Last night, for example, your electric light was shining red through the darkness of your balcony." "And I thought to myself, "There she lies, our beautiful ill woman, wrapped in her woollen blankets, who follows all the rules of the sanatorium so she can soon return to her beloved husband, Signor Stöhr." "But what did I hear?" "Talk that you were seen Leaving the bakery in Davos-Dorf that same night." "How can that be true?" "It was being said that you were seen drinking liquor and eating uncountable biscuits!" "And furthermore, it was being said that you were eating the biscuits in the company of Captain Miklosich." "Please, Signora, don't torture us anymore." "Tell us where you really were." "I don't think you are two people in one." "While the terrestrial part of you was lying on your balcony and following the rules of the sanatorium, while your soul amused itself in the café in Davos with Captain Miklosich eating biscuits." "What do you say to these stories?" "Who knows?" "Who knows?" "Maybe you would have preferred it the other way around, dear Signora Stöhr." "That you had rather eaten the biscuits alone and undergone treatment with Captain Miklosich together on your balcony." "What does this mean?" "Examination." "Oh, yes, we must get going." "Director Behrens hates tardiness." "Please, we must go." "I don't want to receive any more letters from you." "Or any more of those little notices you shove underneath my door." "And I forbid you to harass me in any way." " Short." " Shortened." "Cough." "Deeper." "Vesicular noise." "Vesicular basal right." "Coarse." "Very coarse." "Noise." "Well, Ziemssen, that's fine." "Everything is in as good shape as can be expected." " How long do you think...?" " Are you going to pester me again?" "You can't bully recruits around in your condition." "I told you six months, and six months it will be." "Life is not that bad up here." "We're not a Siberian salt mine." "So that's fine, Ziemssen." "Off with you!" "Off you go." "Yes, Ziemssen." "Ah, yes, it's your turn now." "Yes." "You have a nice sympathetic cousin who will soon hopefully say he was ill at one point." "He's only a half cousin, Herr Director." "Now, you're not going to disown your own cousin, are you?" " On which side?" " On my mother's side." " And your mother is well?" " No." "She died when I was young." " Of what?" " Of a blood clot, Herr Director." " And your father?" " He died of pneumonia." " My grandfather also." " He too?" "Here." "Do you hear it?" " It sounds more hollow there." " Very good." "You should become a specialist." "It's a muffled sound, and muffled sounds come from old infections." "That means you were previously ill." "And here in the upper right, you have a roughness, which is almost a rattle, and undoubtedly comes from a fresh area." "In other words, your planned departure for the day after tomorrow wouldn't be worth it." "You would be back to us in a very short time." "We will take an X-ray of you." "You'll enjoy seeing inside of yourself." "But I'm telling you already, a case like yours doesn't heal from today to tomorrow." "No, no!" "That's all." "Just as I had told you, my friend." "Welcome, Herr Castorp!" "Welcome!" "Gentlemen." "Well...." "Well, it's no use." "We have to do something." "Uncle Tienappel is expecting you at home." "He's not expecting me on any particular day." "It will be a while before they even notice I'm not there." "Well, in due time, they will have to be notified, that's true." "You can imagine how unpleasant the whole thing is for me." "I feel, in a way, responsible." "You come up here to visit me and now...." "That's nonsense." "I primarily came up here to relax after my exams." "Surely I am not the first person who thought he was just visiting and had things turn out differently." "I'm surprised to learn that I'm a little ill, but when I think how young both of my parents died," "I'm not surprised at all." "Where should the great health come from?" "Besides, I've often thought about how I've always felt about it all, about life and its demands." "I've sometimes wished I had become a clergyman, with my interest in sad, edifying things." "A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it or R.I.P." "Requiescat in pace." "That's actually the loveliest expression that I know." "While our report of the first three weeks of Hans Castorp's stay was lengthy, the next three weeks of his visit will hardly use up many words." "It will suffice for the present to remember how quickly a long row of days passes by when ill in bed." "It's always the same day repeating itself." "Because it's always the same," "It's not correct to talk of repetitions." "Focus should be on the present, the existing now, or on eternity." "To talk of boredom in reference to eternity would be a paradox." "And we want to avoid paradoxes, especially in connection with this hero." "My dear Madame Clawdia Chauchat." "Come in." "Good evening, engineer." "I had begun to think that you had departed when I saw your seat empty in the refectory during lunch." "But now I hear that you're lying ill in bed." "Another one of your jokes, calling our dining room a refectory." "One can say you've ended your novitiate, so to speak." "You've...." "You've made your profession, I must say." "My formal congratulations." "But without meaning to affront your masculinity, you remind me more of a young nun than a monk, you see, one of those innocent young brides of Christ, with great martyr-like eyes." "Engineer, do you know what it means to be lost to life?" "You're a writer." "You should be able to understand that life is lost to normal people who stroll around and laugh and earn money and fill their bellies." "You don't mean to say you consider illness to be a worthy substitute to ordinary working life." "It is folly to sympathize with illness because illness is too inhuman and abasing." "But illness makes people noble and intelligent and frees man of routine." "An ill person is nothing more than a body." "In most cases, he is nothing better than a cadaver." "But up here everyone is ill." "Aren't you really ill yourself?" "Yes, if you look very closely, I'm very ill." "Yes, everyone is ill." "The ill deserve seriousness and respect, just as the dead do." "It's clear to me that you try to experiment with many different views, perhaps preliminary ones." "Would you permit me to help you in your experiments and exercise a corrective influence?" "They found nicotine in his urine, and it was a large amount." "So much that Krokowski had to notify the director." "Smoking is strictly forbidden here, strictly forbidden." "That was very nice of him." "In any case, I thought so." "Well, what's wrong with you?" "It's such a lovely evening." "Let's go down to town and listen to some music." "You look so hot." "I fear your fever has risen." "Director Dr. Behrens Entry only with request" "Excuse me, what time is your appointment?" "At half past three." "Ah, mine is at a quarter to four." "It's almost four, and there's still someone inside, isn't there?" "Two people, actually." "The service is delayed." "Irritating, isn't it?" "We've already been waiting almost a half hour." "My God." "Oh, yes!" "My God!" "Why must you always gaze at me so penetratingly?" "Haven't you ever seen a woman before, or what?" "I'm sorry." "Hello, gentlemen." "How do you like my private gallery?" "Useful visual aids to instruct the young." "illuminated anatomy, the triumph of the age." "I expect you're afraid to reveal your insides to us, Castorp." "Please suppress any sounds of pain." "Turn off the light in the corner and come here." "Hug it." "Like this." "Now don't pretend you're too tired." "You'll get a free copy, Castorp." "Then you'll be able to project the secrets of your bosom on the wall for you children and grandchildren to see." "Imagine it's something else if you like." "That's it." "Press your chest against it, as though it filled you with bliss." "That's it!" "Take a deep breath." "Hold it!" "Now smile." "Well done." "Now let's have a look." "Come here." "Come over here." "There." "Here we go!" "Come here." "Stand behind me." "Our eyes must first adapt." "We have to let darkness wash over our eyes to see what we want to see." "I'm standing here with my eyes closed, as in a silent prayer." "Open your eyes!" "Now let the conjuration begin!" "Can you see it, my lad?" "May I?" "Of course." "Your breathing is good." "Keep it up." "Look at the cavities here." "That's where the toxins that protect him come from." "I'm looking at your heart." "Go ahead." "My God, I don't know if it should be allowed to see all this." "Spooky, isn't it?" "A touch of magic should not be misjudged." "Complete science, nothing else!" "And regarding your results, I'm sure the optical results will match the acoustic ones." "Rest, be patient, eat, Lie down, measure, and wait and drink." "Hello!" "How did young Hans Castorp actually feel about all this?" "Was it as though the seven weeks which he had demonstrably," "Indubitably spent with these people feel like a mere seven days?" "Or did it seem to him just the opposite, that he had lived here now much, much longer than he really had?" "His deliberation on this subject and the letter he wrote home about it established Hans Castorp's freedom." "This was the word he used, not explicitly, not by forming the syllables In his mind, but as something he felt In its most comprehensive sense," "In the sense in which he had learned to understand it during his stay here." "You couldn't have known that I only have one King." "Once again!" "Have you realized that tomorrow is the first of the month?" "Only a dog can live in this place." "Damn!" "Be careful." "Don't believe them, engineer." "Is this not an amusing place here?" "Indeed, it is an amusing place, in the most dubious sense." "Call the Director." "Did you see her?" "The one with the overpowering blue dress?" "That is also such a person, with no restraint." "No self-control, spiteful, toxic, stubborn, obnoxious." "But that lady is ill." "She's probably very ill and has a right to deviate from normal behaviour." "After all, this isn't a Siberian salt mine." "Ah, no!" "No, my good engineer, you prefer Eastern comparisons?" "That's very understandable, since Asia engulfs us here." "Wherever we look, we see only Tartarian faces." "I can understand you well." "Too much of Asia hangs in the air here." "Asia and Europe, two major powers battling for control of the world." "Europe was always a land of rebellion, great critics, and misshapen activity." "Asia, in comparison, embodies inflexibility and idle repose." "This barbaric extravagance with time is the Asian style." "That may be the reason why the children of the East feel so at home here." "But you shouldn't adjust to their habits, engineer." "Tell me, are you even listening to me, engineer?" "Oh, yes, of course." "What should I do?" "Leave." "Leave?" "I told you that the very first evening, engineer." "Yes, at that time, I was free to do so, but now...." "Ah, yes." "I know." "Now you hold your legitimation card in your hand, your proof of illness, am I right?" "Yes, the old rat catcher has discovered a spot on your lung." "Do you mean that after the Director's diagnosis, you take it upon yourself to advise me to go home?" "Well, yes." "Yes, engineer, I take it upon myself to advise you to go home." "Then you are more cautious about me than you are about others." "After all, you, yourself, didn't leave." "It sickens me!" "It sickens me to engage in this horrible, continuous battle with you, otherwise I would reply to you that I am considerably more ill than you are!" "And if I submit to staying here, then I do it only because" "I don't want to destroy myself before my time!" "I do it under the painful protest of my mind for the meagre wishes of my ailing body!" "What do you have against the body?" "Well, I...." "Yes, I...." "I respect and love the body, just as I love form, beauty, freedom, and pleasure." "But there is one force, one principle that is the object of my highest and ultimate respect and love, and that principle is the mind." "Tell me, engineer, do you know about the Lisbon earthquake?" "No, there aren't any newspapers here." "Yes, that is characteristic of this institution here, my dear Giovanni, but this doesn't seem to bother you." "I'm not speaking of any current event, rather the big earthquake of 1755." "Therefore...." " Voltaire rebelled against it." " What?" "He rebelled against it?" "He rebelled against an earthquake?" "Yes, yes, he rebelled." "He protested in the name of the mind and reason against this, how do you say, this scandalous offence of nature." "And body is nature, do you understand?" "I will be so bold as to rebuke you for smiling, Signor Castorp, and I'll tell you why." "Because it's slavish to accept reasoning against nature without resistance and defence!" "Excuse me." "Why don't you go after your friend?" "Room 86." "Underneath the roof." "Then you'll be able to continue your discussion of the body and beauty." "Herr Castorp, didn't you notice anything special tonight?" " What?" " About Madame Chauchat." "She dressed herself up just for you." "She's wearing an enchanting dress, even though it's not Sunday." " You haven't realized this yet?" " I have realized it." "But I've also realized something else, that Madame Chauchat's features are too Asian, and not to say old and inexpressive." "She's certainly over 30." "Clawdia, over 30?" "At most, she's 28." "And as for her profile, I forbid you to say such things." "Clawdia's profile is young and sweet." "Director Behrens seems to find no fault with Clawdia's profile." "She models for him." "He draws her, and she's sat for him at least 20 times." "I'm sure you dream vividly of your divine Madame Chauchat every day," "Fräulein Engelhart." "Be careful the goddess does not come too close to you in one of your dreams!" "Quiet!" "I'm sorry." "The Magic Mountain" "Episode 2" "What are you doing here?" "Didn't you read the house rules?" " Sorry, but in there" " Rules are rules!" "No excuses, please!" "Now get to bed!" "Say, Director Behrens, don't you paint sometimes?" "Oh, my!" "Excuse me, but I heard...." "People are mentioning that you paint in oil." "Well, we're all human and have our weaknesses." "So I don't deny it." " Landscapes?" " As many as you like." "Landscapes, still life, animals." "A fellow like me shrinks from absolutely nothing." " But no portraits?" " But, no, no." "Why, do you want to commission me for one?" " No, no, but I was thinking" " Curiosity, huh?" "Curiosity!" "Just come with me, before you catch a cold out here." "So...." "Come in, please." "One moment." "I'll turn the light on." "So...." "That is the Gischmar Tal." "I was born nearby." "It's my home." "That is the Zertig Tal." "That is my deceased wife." "She also had lung problems." "She died up here." "Since then, I am here." "Wait, wait." "I'll turn the light on for you." "One moment." "I know this face." "Do you recognize her?" "Yes, that's...." "That's the woman from the Good Russian table as she lives and breathes." "Did you ever notice the way she walks?" "Her face is just like her walk." "She is a slinker." "Look at her skin!" "Her skin here." "Is it lifelike, or not especially so, in your opinion?" "Terribly." "Terribly lifelike." "I don't think I've ever seen skin that was painted that well." "You almost think you feel the person." "I'm glad." "I'm glad you like it." "The human hide there is a matter of science." "Yes, science, that is important." "I want to say...." "I mean, I think it is good if the artistic relationship is joined by a second one, when you see things, so to speak, from a different point of view." "For example, a medical one." "Basically, these are all variations of one and the same interest, of which the artistic activity is merely one part of expression, if I may put it that way." "Pardon me, I took this painting off the wall." "Over there at the window wall it doesn't get any light." "You'll see." "I mean to say...." "What exactly is medical science concerned with?" "I understand nothing about it, but its main concern is with human beings." "And it's the humanistic professions, where art and science are intermixed, in so far as its main theme is human beings." "Wouldn't it look so much better over here?" "Sure, if you think it can tolerate so much light." "How about a small glass before bedtime?" "What are you doing now?" "I'm just going to lean it against the wall." "For the moment, it's a good place for it." "Well, that's a small tool for single gentlemen." "I usually keep it locked up so that nobody is ruining their eyes with it." "It was given to me as a gift by a patient, an Egyptian princess." "I hope you are not offended by it." "No, no, it doesn't bother me." "One could even view it in earnest or in a ceremonial light, if one likes." "The ancients are said to have decorated their coffins with things like this." "The obscene and the sacred were the same for them." "Well, as far as the princess goes, she was given more to the former." "Cheers." "Cheers." "The female shape, so that is fat?" "You mean the curves?" "Yes, that is fat." "The thickest and fattest parts are the female breasts and abdomen and the upper thighs." "In short, everywhere you find a little something of interest for your hand and heart." "What is the body?" "What is the flesh?" "Water." "The dry substance only amounts up to 25%, of which 20% is ordinary protein to which just a little fat and salt is then added." "And what about the protein?" "What is it?" "Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and some more." "For example, the myosin molecules become adherent to protein in the muscles and cause rigor mortis." "Ah, yes, rigor mortis." "Very good, yes." "And then comes the autopsy, the anatomy of the grave." "So, if one is interested in life, it's death one is particularly interested in." "Then I always have to think of my childhood, my childhood in Russia, you know." "Dear guests." "My dear fellow patients." "Today, just like every year, we are here to present a gift to our admired master," "Director Behrens." "This year again we have selected a present for you, dear Director, which we will present to you now together." " Please blindfold the Director." " Blindfold me?" "That's nonsense!" "I'm just going to turn to the side or close my eyes." "Wouldn't that work?" " But, no!" " Come on!" "Where are you going?" "And now, dear Doctor, you will have to kneel down." "Very well, then!" "And now put your head here." " Yes, yes." " Very well." "Voilà, now he is blind." "You can start." "Silence." "Now you can open your eyes again, Doctor." "Music, please." "It helps to fall asleep." "This new sport is outrageous carelessness!" "Didn't you hear me?" "I ordered flowers for Leitla Gerngross in your name and mine." "I think that's embarrassing." "Well, I think that somebody should care a little about the acute cases and the dying left in solitude." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Did you see what my parents brought me?" "I wanted one for so long." "If I were a Little bird" "And had two wings" "I would fly to you" "Yes?" "Good day, Director." "Well, yes, you did a proper bit of courting there." "I like that about you." "I didn't court her, but acted out of protest against the prevailing egotism up here." "That's good, too, and either way it's fine." "In any case, I like it that you are taking on my little lung-whistlers in their cages." "No, it's a nice trait." "Of course." "To be continued soon in this movie theater...." "Thank you for bringing me here." "I have a suspicion that you are just courting this shrinking violet as a substitute for a woman you evidently don't know how to approach." "Is it true that he is feeding the fat Mallinckrodt with porridge out of pure charity?" "Well, he decided to assist the hard cases and the dying a little." "Director Behrens and others are supporting this decision." "Too bad that Madame Chauchat isn't a morbid one." "Then your cousin would have fewer problems with her, and he could feed her porridge, too." "I beg you, please!" "Many serious cases have danced their way to eternity on this dance floor, haemorrhaging one last time." "Here it is." "This is it." "This is mine." "My grave." "We are now approaching one of the first specials of the evening." "Dr. Krokowski will enter the arena." "In which costume, however, he didn't disclose to me." "Three charming examples of the sanitarium's long-term living:" "Herr Ferge, Fräulein Engelhart and the oldest among us, our Olga Tritow!" "Olga, Olga, Olga!" "Olga, Olga, Olga!" "And now, ladies and gentlemen, Herr Wehsaal and Frau Magnus, arriving directly from the graves of the Davos cemetery." "You were saying something about a Lilith before." "Which Lilith did you mean?" "Was she married twice?" "Lilith, a figure from a Hebraic legend." "This Lilith became a wraith and haunted young men at night." "And do you know why?" "Because she has very beautiful, full long hair, Giovanni." "How disgusting, a wraith with beautiful hair." "You simply can't stomach things Like this, can you?" "And so here you come and turn the lights back on, so to speak, so you can set young men back on the right path." "I ask you please, Engineer, not to use the informal." "I didn't address you with the informal." "Don't even think that you can do that!" "It's Mardi Gras!" "It's a common practice on an evening like this." "I will address you informally, even though I have to overcome my own resistance." "But I'll give myself a poke, with all my heart." "With all your heart?" "We've been up here together for so long now." "Seven months, if you stop to count, and I think it's time to thank you." "Thank you for having been so kind as to look after me for the past seven months." "I empty my glass in honour of your pedagogic efforts." "Engineer!" "Engineer!" "My good Engineer, whatever has gotten into you?" "Those sound like words of farewell." "No, why should it be farewell?" "Hans!" "Ah, Fräulein Engelhart." "I was looking for you." "You might miss out on the punch." "Come." "So, ladies and gentlemen, since you insist, here's a skit." "This won't work." "That's not even a pencil." "It's way too short." "That's no pencil!" "Does anyone have a pencil?" "A pencil?" "A pencil?" "A pencil?" "Do you have a pencil?" "A pencil?" "I need a pencil!" "A pencil!" "A pencil!" "Do you have a pencil?" "Joachim, a pencil!" "A pencil!" " A pencil!" "I have to draw!" " Engineer!" "A pencil?" "A pencil?" "Engineer!" "A little bit of reason!" "Engineer!" "I need a pencil!" "I have to draw!" "Engineer!" "This boy is crazy!" "What are you looking for?" "Please...." "Please, may I borrow a pencil?" "I will check." "Maybe there is one in my handbag." "Voilà!" "Be sure to give it back to me." "It seems like an eternity since we've been sitting here like this." "It is a dream I know well and have dreamed for a long time." "Yes, eternally sitting here with you as I am now." "Nice words." "But, say, surely it wouldn't have been that hard to dream this dream earlier." "Eternity is like drawing a piglet with your head turned away and your eyes closed." "You seem quite at home in eternity, at least that's what I think." "But this eternity won't last that much Longer because I'm leaving." "Are you cured, then?" "No." "But since my condition is not improving," "Behrens thinks that a little change of air would do me good." " Will you be coming back?" " Maybe." "I have the freedom to choose where to go." "I love freedom above all." "It was taken from me temporarily through my marriage, but my illness gave it back to me." "I may well return." "But you probably will be far from here Long before that." "So you know how sick I am?" "Yes and no." "I only know what people say." "I heard about a little moist spot there inside, right here, and a bit of fever." "100.2!" " Well...." " Such a fever!" "Ah, you think I'm here out of pleasure!" "No." "That's not how I am." "What do you think of me?" "Conventional, from a good family, a docile pupil to his teachers." "I'm the exact opposite of you." "Virtue bores me." "And if there is morality, I'd rather search for it in sin, in danger, or in whatever can harm me, what destroys us." "Yes, it seems more moral to lose oneself and let oneself be ruined than to save oneself." "I know you disapprove of what I say, since you will soon return to the flatlands in order to help your fatherland become more powerful and increase his glory." "Voilà." "There you have your own photograph from both of us, a portrait in time, taken without a camera." "It lacks some of the details that Behrens found there." "Ah, doctors always find what they want to find." "No, Clawdia." "The fever in my body, the vehement pounding of my exhausted heart, the change in my lymph glands, it is nothing but my love for you." "It overwhelmed me the instant I laid eyes on you, the love that I knew before I knew you." "And it's obvious to me now that it is this love that has led me here." "What foolishness." "My love for you has been within me for many years now." "I've already known you for a short eternity, you and your beauty." "Your slanted eyes, your mouth, your voice." "And from this time, the scarred spot that Behrens found in my lung, proves that I was sick even then." "The carnival is over." "You know the consequences of it, monsieur." "I love you." "I have always loved you." "For you are the "intimate you" of my life, my dream, my need, my eternal desire." "My little bourgeois." "My little bourgeois with the small moist spot." "Is it true that you love me so much?" "The body, love, death are simply one and the same." "The body is sickness and depravity." "It is what produces death." "Love and death are the source of their cruel magic." "Love is mystic, and nobility and piety and eternity." "Ah, ravishing organic beauty, not done in oils or stone, but made of living and corruptible matter, full of the feverish secret of life and decay!" "Consider the marvellous symmetry of the human frame, the shoulders, the hips, the breasts as they blossom at each side, and the ribs arranged in pairs, and the navel set amid the supple belly, and the dark sexual organs between the thighs!" "Consider the shoulder blades shifting beneath the silky skin of the back, and the spine descending into the doubled luxuriance of the buttocks, and the great network of veins and nerves that branch out, and the way the structure of the arms corresponds to that of the leg." "Oh, the sweet inner surface of the elbow and the hollow of the knee, with their abundance of organic delicacies beneath the padded flesh!" "What an immense festival of death with no weeping afterward!" "Good God, let me smell the odour of the skin on your knee, beneath which the segmented capsule secretes its slippery oil!" "Let me touch in devotion your pulsing femoral artery where it emerges at the top of your thigh and then divides farther into the two arteries of the tibia!" "Let me take in the exhalation of your pores and brush the down, water and protein of the human image, destined to die!" "Let me perish...." "My lips against yours!" "Please, please kiss me!" "You are indeed a gallant suitor, one who knows how to woo in a very profound, German way." "Good-bye, my Carnival Prince!" "Don't forget to return my pencil." "Are you cured now for good, Herr Settembrini?" "No, my sentence is life." "I mean, I have to stay here forever." "I've known it for some time now." "Sure, I can still get very old, but unfortunately only up here." "But then you have to stay here." "Of course I'm staying here." "But unfortunately, my precarious situation doesn't allow for a luxury cell for that many years." "Well, that's the way it is." "So, I will be lodging with Lukaek, the tailor, in the village." "Please come and visit me some time." "For you" "Cause of death:" "Final haemorrhage due to heart failure." "Time of death: 6:45 a.m." "Notify the relatives of Dr. Blumenkohl." "Quiet!" "Time is active to change time." "Since that Mardi Gras night when Hans Castorp borrowed a pencil from Madam Chauchat, nine weeks have passed." "Three times as long as Hans Castorp originally wanted to stay up here." "The only thing the simple young man had retrieved from his hour of deepest adventure, however, had been the approaching possibility that Frau Chauchat would return for a further stay." "It doesn't mean anything." "Don't worry, Peter." "Just eat and drink and be well until we return." "And we will take care of ourselves, too, and stay away from grief." "God will bring the autumn before we know it, and then both of us will already be back." "Come on." "Good-bye." "Good day, ladies and gentlemen." "I hope you are enjoying the food." "Good day." "Why don't you take a little gravy?" "Then your food will go down better." "You should take better care of your cousin." "He's become so unapproachable during the last few weeks since Madame Chauchat isn't here anymore." "This fluid will lower your fever." "In three to four months you'll be fit as a fiddle." "I'm still thinking back on this one evening last fall." "It was highly interesting." "When I was permitted a look at Frau Chauchat's portrait and the first-class way you painted the skin." "But at the time, I didn't know the model, or just by sight." "Since then, shortly before her recent departure, I made her acquaintance, conversationally." "That was probably a critical area that you happened to hit there, Director." "Cute, right." " Does she write you now and then?" " Who?" " Frau Chauchat." " Heaven forbid!" "She'd never think of it." "First, because she's too lazy to write." "She's sure to come back, sooner or later." "But if your cousin should leave us, as he threatened to do, because he wants to wear his saber, he won't come back, but fall apart from your mind-heavy fog in Hamburg." "You should take care of him a little, so he doesn't do anything foolish." "I'm only interested in one thing." "When can I finally do what I want and what I'm good at?" "But you could be interested in astrology." "Definitely more than your Russian grammar." "Especially since you are studying Russian without any good purpose." "I mean, Marusja is gone, and...." "Excuse me, I forgot the knowledge of Russian would always be a great advantage for you, of course, if there should be a war, which God forbid." "You're talking like a civilian." "War is necessary." "Without war, the world would soon go to rot, as Moitke said." "Yes, it has that tendency." "Oh, look, isn't that...?" "Hello, Herr Settembrini!" "I didn't even have a chance to say good-bye when you moved out the other day." "Ah, my good Engineer." "In his sporty walk, he is crossing the meadow." "I have to say what a delightful sight this is." "I can only advise you to get active." "Excuse me, may I introduce Herr Naphta, Giovanni Castorte?" " He is an engineer" " I was a technician in the flatlands." "And you want to be a technician again as soon as possible and work as much as you can, right?" "Excuse me, Joachimo Ziemssen, the praised hope of the Prussian military and a mountain refugee in spirit since he had to undergo his first day here." "As I told you earlier, Herr Naphta, these two gentlemen have a burning desire to work again." "Ah, the hope of the Prussian military." "Tell me, German soldier, I'm sure you're interested in politics." "No, even though we were just talking about war before." "My cousin thinks that war is necessary for the progress of humankind." "In principle, that is true." "Because what good would politics be if it didn't give people the opportunity to make moral compromises." "What you have said is cynical." "You're determined to interpret democracy's noble endeavours as mere political cunning." "Indeed political cunning." "They are nothing but the last, feeble twitches of an instinct for self-preservation." "The little rest a doomed internationally system still has." "The catastrophe will, and indeed, must follow." "The capitalist Europe wants its fate and should get it." "One believes war is inevitable, if one does not loathe it sufficiently," "Professor Naphta." "So, how did you like him?" "The little fellow?" "Not very well." "He's a dubious character." "Besides, his nose is Jewish." "And only Semites have such puny physiques." "Do you seriously plan to keep in touch with him?" "But of course." "Maybe we can learn something from him." "What we are to do is to get healthy, not more clever." "Healthier...." "So they can finally let us go free and send us back to the flatlands." "Freedom dwells upon the mountains" ""Freedom is the law of brotherly love," Settembrini said." "And even though this sounds brave, I have the impression that Settembrini is afraid of something the little Naphta is not afraid of." "Do you think Settembrini has enough courage to lose himself or to let himself be ruined?" "What are you speaking French for?" "Oh, just because." "Voilà." "You're badly mistaken if you believe that future revolutions will end in freedom." "In the last 500 years the principle of freedom didn't just get fulfilled, but it also outlived itself." "I would say a pedagogue that regards itself as liberal and humanistic is sublimely backward." "All great educators have always known that there can only be one central truth in any pedagogy, and that is absolute authority, an ironclad bond, discipline and sacrifice, renunciation of the ego, and coercion of the personality." "It is ultimately a cruel understanding of youth to believe it will find its heart's desire in freedom, in choices, and in an abundance of possibilities." "Its deepest desire is to obey." "The liberation and development of the individual are the secrets and the command of time." "What our age needs...." "What it demands, and what it will create for itself is terror." "The agent of this terror will be people who create a social theory whose principles and goals coincide exactly with those of the Christian City of God." "The Church fathers called "mine" and "yours" pernicious words, described private property as thievery." "They learned that the law of private ownership only led to greed and injustice." "They despised the capitalistic principle as a seducer to inhumanity." "Today the world's proletariat opposes the decadent bourgeois-capitalist rot with the humanity of the City of God." "The proletariat has taken up the word of the fathers." "Its work is terror, that the world may be saved and the goal of redemption be achieved, a society without states and classes." "Midsummer's Night." "Midsummer's Night." "This picture was a gift from one of my students." "It is not very good." "I like it anyway." "They are celebrating the first night of summer, which is actually the beginning of autumn." "Why are they so merry?" "Because they are now headed back down into the dark?" "I know why." "The turning point has come." "The unstoppable turning point." "Midsummer's Night." "The high point with mirth and melancholy." "That is mirthful melancholy." "They are dancing out of constructive despair." "They are being led around by the nose, in a circle, by the promise of something that is just another turning point." "And eternity that has no definite direction is not "straight ahead,"" "but rather "merry-go-round"!" "Enough, Engineer, silence!" "Educate yourself, but don't produce yourself!" "I would be happy to see you again soon, Herr Castorp." "I won't allow that, as long as you don't clearly and unmistakably admit that you avow yourself to the darkest reaction, Professor Naphta." "If one wants to avow oneself to freedom and humanity, the first step should be to rid oneself of the term "reaction."" "Ah, that is enough!" "Come on, my good Engineer!" " Thank you for the delicious cake." " Herr Castorp." "Come on." "One moment." "Excuse me." "Hello, Herr Lukaek." "I have a little question." "Go ahead!" "Please, not so loud." "Do you remember a customer from the Berghof Sanitarium?" "About four, five months ago." "A young Russian woman." "She ordered a black silk dress from you, without sleeves." "Yes, yes." "Yes, a very good customer." "Do you mean Madame Chauchat?" "Yes, her." "I think that was her name." "And what about her?" "What about her?" "No, nothing." "I thought maybe she still orders clothes from you, and you might know her address." "Sorry, I can't help with that." "Didn't hear anything again after the black sleeveless." "Did you like the dress?" " Come on, now, my good Engineer." " Yes, very good." "Thank you very much." "Come on, my good Engineer." "Come on, come quick." "Careful, don't bump your head!" "Please come in, my good Engineer." "I would like to warn you, Engineer." "Warn me about what?" "About the person whose guests we just were." "Did you know that this man is a Jesuit?" "What?" " This man's a Jesuit?" " Yes, you've guessed it." "A Jew converted to Catholicism, believe me." "He is a brother of the Jesuit order, off duty, because he is sick." "He really is just as sick as I am." "But he is a dangerous reactionary." "I see, I see." "Nevertheless, just as Naphta, you're trying to force me into a way of thinking that seems right to you." "All I can say is politics spoils the character." "Ah, there must be a few fools at your home that are claiming that, but everything is politics, even the social problem." "The coexistence with neighbours is politics." "Everything is politics!" "Dear friend, in the near future, we're expected to make decisions for the future of Europe." "You and everybody else have to face these decisions, otherwise your soldier cousin and the likes of him will step in front of you and your silence to solve the problems at gunpoint." "Yes, the damn libido." "The whole affair is great sport for you, but the director of a sanitarium...." "Vesicular." "He gets a noseful." "In any case, I expelled all of them." "Nöiting the Greek and the jealous girlfriend of Fräulein Nöiting." "Vesicular." "Who started a terrible rage to find her girlfriend with the Greek?" "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I've had enough." "Slight roughness." "And before you know what's happened, you're running a cathouse." "It's better over here." "The sound is gone." "I'm quite aware that young folks go to the dogs too easily here, and I used to take occasional measures against it, but then...." "Weak rattling, top right." "Then some lad or lover looked me straight in the eye and asked what business it was of mine." "Since then, I've been only a doctor." "Vesicular." "Well, Ziemssen, keep your chin up." "Things are still not quite the way we find them in a medical textbook, but no reason to be down." " Another five or six months." " Director Behrens, I would like" "If you do your duty here for another half year or so, then your career is made." "You can take Constantinople." "You'll be robust enough to bust the entire Prussian regiment." "Director Behrens, I wish to report that I have decided to depart." "Do you know that's desertion of duty?" "No, that is not how I see it, Director Behrens." "I have to return to my regiment." "I've been here for a year and a half." "I can't wait any longer." "I have to go back down." "No matter what the risk?" "Yes, Director Behrens." "Fine, Ziemssen." "Go ahead, leave." "God be with you." "You're taking over, and the responsibility is no longer mine when you do take over." "Man is master of his fate." "You travel at your own risk." "I wash my hands." "But yours is a fresh-air profession." "It may very well be that it does you good, and you'll make the grade." "Yes, Director Behrens." "Well, and what about you, the young member of the civilian population?" "I suppose you want to go along?" "I would rather make that dependent on your approval, Director." "My approval?" "Fine." "You may leave." "Why?" "Am I cured?" "Yes, you are cured." "Your temperature had obviously nothing to do with it." "You may leave." "But, Director Behrens, you're not really serious, are you?" "Not serious?" "Why?" "What would make you think that?" "What sort of person do you suppose I am?" "What do you take me for, the owner of a cathouse?" "I won't stand for it!" "I don't own anything here!" "I'm merely an employee!" "I'm a doctor!" "I'm only a doctor, do you understand?" "I'm not anyone's procurer." "And if you plan to wait here for the creeping return of your Russian mistress, then do so down in the village." "I'm Signor Amoroso working the Toledo in beautiful Naples." "I serve suffering humanity." "And if you have formed a different opinion of me, both of you can go to hell, to pot, or to the dogs, take your pick!" "Bon voyage!" "Well, superiors throw temper tantrums." "The only thing to do is to maintain perfect composure and let it pass right over you." "Did you see how he capitulated when he realized that I was serious?" "All you have to do is show your spunk and not let them get the upper hand." "Now I've been given permission more or less." "Officer Ziemssen, you are released for work." "Don't you want to pack?" " This is where I arrived." " Yes, so you did." "Well, you're finally leaving me up here, where I came to visit you." "Make sure you swear that fervent oath of allegiance." "I intend to." "Say hello to everybody." "Hans!" "Hans, come soon." "A telegram for you." "Please read it." "Arriving tomorrow evening. 6 p.m. Davos-Dorf." "Uncle Tienappel." "Fine, lovely." "Is there a room available for Herr Tienappel?" "I think the room of your departed cousin is still available." "I will find out." "Well, my boy, there you are." "Hello." "Let me take a look at you." "And you want to tell me that you are still sick?" "You look splendid, and I'm very satisfied to find that out." " Hello, Uncle Tienappel." " Your baggage voucher, please." "Of course." " Here you are." " Thank you." "I have a carriage here." "I can only stay one week." "Seven days, perhaps even only six." "But I strongly assume that you'll be returning home with me after that, won't you?" "Well, let's not be reckless about this." "You're talking like someone from down below has to talk." "The air is excellent." "Really, excellent!" "Well, it's not world-famous for nothing." "It can heal latent illnesses carried within everyone but brings them first to an exuberant eruption due to the air's organic impetus and stimulus." " Exuberant?" " But of course." "Did you never notice that there is something exuberant about the eruption of illness, as if the body is celebrating?" "Yes, but of course, to be sure." "You have to be here for a while," "Look around, settle in, and you'll see things differently." "The point was total cure." "Totality is the decisive factor." "Behrens recently saddled me with another six months." "My boy, have you gone crazy?" "A vacation of a year and a quarter, and now another six months!" "In God's name, a man doesn't have all that much time!" "Time." "I will have a serious discussion about this with the director tomorrow morning." "Do that." "You'll like him." "Well, my boy...." "Now tell me, what is really going on with your health?" "My case is modest, but chronic, so everybody at home can calm down." "But it always depends on how things turn out." "It could be that the irritation to the cell of the tissue in the lung and the air sacks of the lungs caused by the bacillus will stop the disease." "It also could be that ever-larger soft foci could build up, creating extending cavities that would destroy the entire organ." "Then there is an accelerated or galloping form of this process, which could lead to one's exodus within a few months, even weeks." "Director Behrens will perform a lung resection on a recently arrived serious case, a once attractive Scottish woman, to stop a gangrene of the lungs that created a blackish-green infection inside her." "She has breathed a vaporized solution of carbolic acid all day long just to keep from losing her mind in revulsion at her own body." "I have to tell you about an incredible young thing, a so-called chansonette, that is currently appearing in St. Pauli and whose charm knocked the breath out of all the gentlemen in our home city-state." "So...." "Ah, the visitor of Herr Castor, the uncle." "Nice to meet you." "Tienappel, Hamburg." "Dr. Krokowski, Davos." "Are you here as a patient?" "But of course." "Of course not." "As a visitor." "He is completely healthy." "He will only be here for a week." "I came here with the intent to actively check up on things and to break away this belated young man from here and to deliver him back to his home." "Well, then get to work." "But you should know that you are operating on foreign soil here." "Good night." "But of course, to be sure." "Naturally." "How was your first night?" "Sleep well?" "Excellent?" "Or did the air trouble you?" "Thank you for asking." "I didn't have any problems." "Slept like a dead man." "The long journey probably did its part." "The physicians." "Good morning, Ladies and gentlemen, morning." " Did you sleep well?" " Thank you." "Morning." "Sleep well, yes?" "I'm glad." " Director, I wanted to ask you" " I'll be right back." " Good morning, Director Behrens." " Morning." "Morning, gentlemen." "Sleep well?" "Doctor Behrens, my uncle, James Tienappel, from Hamburg." "Ah, happy to meet you." "That was a tip-top notion, to come up here and provide this lonely boy some company." "Which is also in your own interest, since you're completely anaemic." "Anaemic?" "Me, James Tienappel?" "But, yes, first-class case." "It would be a very clever move to recline here comfortably on a balcony for a few weeks and emulate the fine example set by your nephew." "In your condition, one could do nothing wiser than to live for a while as if one had a light case of tuberculosis pulmonum." " But of course, naturally." " Dear gentlemen, good morning." "Afterwards, take your walk and put your mercury cigars in your mouth." "You should measure as well, Herr Tienappel." "Never hurts to measure." "Morning, ladies and gentlemen." "Morning, everyone." "I'll give you one of my blankets." "Good." "Well, my boy, you've already mastered that perfectly." "You sent for me?" "Am I right here, room 33?" "That's right, room 33." "So what it is?" "My uncle, Herr Tienappel, would like to make an appointment with Director Behrens." " A discussion?" " Yes, preferably today, if I may." "What are you thinking, dear child?" "You have to be a little more patient." "The director is busy." "Surgeries, check-ups, the suffering humankind take precedence, according to Christian principles, child." "And you, you're supposedly healthy, aren't you?" "But of course." "It would be a different matter if you wished to have a general examination." "Look at me for a moment." "Look at me." "Eye to eye." "Yours are a little dull and have a flicker." "Child." "It doesn't appear to me that all is so "spotless" with you." " One moment" " Don't misunderstand me." "Are you asking for an examination or for a private discussion?" "For the latter, of course, for a private discussion." "Then you have to wait until further notice." "The director seldom has time for private discussions." "Well...." "What a terrible person!" ""The director seldom has time for private discussions!"" "At least an original person." "Did she sell you a clinical thermometer?" "No." "Me, why?" "Is she in the business?" "I wouldn't be surprised if she would have." "An absolute original person, you're right." "Is your heater off as well?" "I'm cold." "I'm cold all day long." "Even in bed I was cold." "Say, you have quite a vegetable garden here." "I'm currently studying botany." "Oh, what is this?" "A souvenir." "Oh, pardon me." "As I can see, you're quickly acclimatizing up here." "I think you have an appointment with me in six days." "Unfortunately there is nothing earlier." "But of course, thank you." "Naturally." "Please tell me, Director Behrens, you studied, right?" "You studied the body." "You're a physician, and not a bad one, so I have heard." "The body is your business, so to say." "Now could you please explain, what happens when the body decomposes?" "First of all, your guts burst." "There you are lying on your wood shavings and sawdust, and the gases, you see, swell you up, blow you up immensely, the same way naughty boys blow up frogs." "And finally you're a regular balloon." "Then your abdomen can no longer take the pressure and bursts." "Bang!" "You relieve yourself noticeably, in the same way Judas Iscariot did when he fell from the bough." "Your bowels gush out." "And after that, you're actually socially acceptable again." "That is called to stink yourself out." "And if you were to go for a stroll, you'd be quite a fine fellow, much like the citizens of Palermo who are hung up in the Capuchin catacombs near Porta Nuova." "All you have to do first is to stink yourself out." "James, we wanted to go to...." "James?" ""I received a telegram that requires my immediate return to the plains on business."" "I see." "He turned tail and ran." "That was the end of the attempt by the flatlands to reclaim the absent Hans Castorp." "The young man admitted quite openly to himself that such total failure, which he had seen coming, was of decisive importance for his relationship to the people down there." "For the flatland, it meant a final shrug, the abandonment of any claim." "For him, however, It meant freedom finally won." "And by now, his heart no longer fluttered at the thought." "Nothing was in the way of Hans Castorp's second winter here." "I can't take the winter anymore." "The brochure guaranteed sun, and we've already been in fog for three weeks." "We have the right to some sun." "We basically paid for it." "I love the snow." "The shore or mountains in snow are almost the same." "The tendency to push the enthusiastic contact with nature so far as to risk its total embrace is much stronger up here than by the shore." "Not bad." "Now what?" "Down across here and then straight ahead following my nose." "Something needs to happen." "You're talking to yourself, Hans Castorp." "I think you're a little muddleheaded." "Bad...." "Bad, bad." "It's like the experience of someone Lost in a mountain snowstorm who doesn't find his way home anymore." "Someone hearing about it later imagines how ghastly it must have been, but forgets that illness batters its victims until they get along with one another." "There is a merciful self-narcosis, nature's means of relief that you have to fight against." "A blessing for all those that don't want to return home but extremely dangerous for those that want to return home." "I don't intend for one moment to be covered by stupid crystallometry!" "Oh, damned, damned whiteness!" "What a curse." "That really is the same cabin that I just passed." "Only half past four." "I'm not even gone that long." "It was just a dream." "I know we're making up dreams ourselves." "But how can one do something Like that." "I will be good." "I don't want to let death get a hold of my thoughts." "Love is stronger than he ls." "Well...." "With that I shall awaken." "With that I've dreamed my dream to its end." "My heart is beating strong and knows why." "And not for purely physical reasons, the way fingernails grow on a corpse." "He probably was overdoing it last night." "All the young people here have no shame." "He probably has something with Fräulein Engelhart." "She doesn't take her eyes off of him for a second." "Look over there." "A dispatch for you." "Excuse me." "Clawdia." "Who is it from?" "Did anybody die?" "Go ahead, speak up." "Good news or bad?" "Both." "It all went quickly, already ripe for home." "Already ripe for home?" "Joachim is coming back." "There you go!" "What did I say?" "Rotten, rotten." "I just hope this thing didn't turn dear young Ziemssen putrid." "Frau Stöhr!" "The body triumphs." "It has other plans than the soul." "It's not Frau Chauchat." "Ziemssen is coming back, Joachim Ziemssen!" "Already after one year." "That doesn't look good." "No, it really doesn't." "Do you remember, it's exactly two years ago when you put wild flowers in my room when I arrived?" "You arrived as a visitor." " Whereas I" " Ah, just a little post-treatment." "In two or three months you'll be back at the front, Herr Lieutenant." "I'm supposed to extend greetings from" "Yes, I know, from home." "No, from Frau Chauchat." "I met her at the train station in Munich." "She wanted me to tell you that she might be back here in winter." "Room 33?" "Yes, room 33." "Right." "Stay seated, child." "And you, child, what did I hear?" "You're coming for a little extra therapy." "Sore throat, hoarseness, good child." "Let me take a look." "Say, child, did you ever choke on something?" "Did you, or did you not?" "Of course I have choked on something before." "Do you remember when the last time was?" "No, I don't." "Well, it was just a thought." "What are you doing here?" "I should have someone give you a special copy of the house rules." " Director Behrens, I beg you" " What do you want?" " I urgently have to talk to you." " So I've noticed." "You're following me as if I were some young miss, or God knows what sort of object of your affection." "I beg your pardon, it's about my cousin." "He is being painted now, I mean his throat." "I'm sure it's harmless, isn't it?" "You want everything to be harmless, Castorp, that's the way you are." "And if you're getting involved in things that are not harmless, then you treat them as if they were, and you think that will ingratiate you with God and man." "You're something of a coward, a phony man!" "And if your cousin calls you a civilian, that's merely a very euphemistic way of putting it." "There can be no question that I have my weaknesses of character." "But what I've been trying to ask you for three days now is" "For me to tell you the sweet, sugary, diluted truth." "That you can enjoy your innocent sleep, while others wake and let the gale winds blow." "But, Director Behrens, you're very hard on me." "It's just the opposite, I wanted" "Yes, hard on you, and it's not up your alley." "Your cousin is a different sort of fellow." "He knows what's what." "He knows and is silent, do you understand?" "He knew what he was doing." "That's a man who knows how to keep a stiff upper lip, to keep his mouth shut, which is a manly art, but not the sort nice, little bipeds Like yourself can understand." "And now back to your post." "You know that your tears are merely an alkaline, salty gland product, containing mucins and protein." "Herr Ziemssen...." "Regard the prescribed times, take walks of exactly 30 minutes and then go to the lying treatment." "We have to." "Duty is duty, schnapps is schnapps." "Am I right?" "Yes." "We look like drunks, the way we walk." "Please turn off the light." "It's blinding me." "When the commanding general gave me my lieutenant's certificate the sergeants who were under my command and who I was already familiar with stood up to salute me and I just casually dismissed them." "Listen...." "I know the expression, "First overcome your inhibitions."" "And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus...." "Now everything is fine." "And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria." "And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city." "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, Into Judaea...." "I must immediately...." "I must immediately write a petition for the extension of my vacation." "And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered." "And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him In swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the lnn." "And there were, in the same country, shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." "And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them." "And they were so afraid." "And the angel said unto them, "Fear not." "For, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." "For unto you is born this day In the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. "" "He was a hero!" "A hero!" "We should play "Erotica."" "A very esteemed, sympathetic young man." "Literary men make the mistake of thinking that only the spirit makes us respectable." "In my opinion, the opposite is more true." "Only where there is no spirit are we respectable." "A great kid, a great fellow." "He wanted to force it, you know." "Of course that's the way the service is down there, all force and violence." "He did his duty with a fever, come hell or high water." "The field of honour, you know." "Hightailed it for the field of honour and kept running." "But honour was the death of him, and death...." "Death did him the honour." "A great fellow." "The Magic Mountain" "Episode 3" "He was a hero!" "A hero!" "We should play "Erotica."" "A very esteemed, sympathetic young man." "Literary men make the mistake of thinking that only the spirit makes us respectable." "In my opinion, the opposite is more true." "Only where there is no spirit are we respectable." "A great kid, a great fellow." "He wanted to force it, you know." "Of course that's the way the service is down there, all force and violence." "He did his duty with a fever, come hell or high water." "The field of honour, you know." "Hightailed it for the field of honour and kept running." "But honour was the death of him, and death...." "Death did him the honour." "A great fellow." "It's unknown if Hans Castorp ever overcame his timidity" "In discovering how old he had actually become up here." "We only know that the timidity which hindered him was the timidity of his conscience, even though it ls most unscrupulous to ignore time." "He now truthfully no longer knew how old he was." "No, sir, not today." "Well, here we are." "Let's see how good the cooking is." "Good food is just as important as a good night's sleep and good friends." "With this in mind, Ladies and gentlemen, it's settled." "It's settled." "Hey!" "Come here." "Come to me." " Well, what's your name?" " Emerentia." "Emerentia!" "That exceeds my highest expectations." "Emerentia...." "As a nickname, it might be Rentia, but I'll call you Emchen." "No, no, no." "I'll name you...." "Emmy, yes?" "I'll tell you something, Emmy." "In the world of God, glory, and justice, you are small in stature, but most assuredly you have a brave heart." "And now please bring me a geneva." "A geneva, sir, right away." "Have you seen the pearl necklace on Madame Chauchat's neck?" "He's a money magnet." "It's hardly the sign of Caucasian marital gallantry." "The pearls surely came out of shared travel expenses." "That's called a "money magnate."" "But "magnet" is not bad either." "Obviously there's a lot of attraction to him." "He is said to be very ill." "Tropical fever or malaria or so." "Fräulein Engelhart wants to know what you think of him." "How is your cousin, monsieur?" "He's dead." "That's a shame." "Dead and buried?" "Since when?" "For some time now." "And you didn't even return home for the burial of your cousin?" "No." "But you won't believe how cold his forehead was." "Why must you insist on using the informal with me?" "I will never use the formal with you again, never again." "What a joke!" "You've been here the whole time?" "Yes." "I've been waiting." "For what?" "For you." "For me?" "You're a fool." "Do you still have a fever?" "Almost always." "It varies, but it's not an intermittent fever." "Should that be a hint?" "And where were you?" "Listen, I don't want you to use the informal with me." "Well, while I was gone, I was everywhere." "In Moscow, then Baku." "I was in Spain and in German spas." "Spain, how was it?" "Not bad, even though travel is difficult in Spain." "I bought myself a little blue cap there, the kind that all the local men wear." "They're worn off to the side and are called bolna." "Monsieur will have to judge whether it suits me well." "Which monsieur?" "Which one?" "The one sitting in front of me in this chair." "Oh, I thought your new companion." "I'm sorry, he has already judged it." "He says I look absolutely charming in it." "Did he say that?" "All the way to the end?" "I mean, spoke the entire sentence to the end, so that you could understand it?" "Ah, it appears you're becoming malicious." "You're trying to make fun of other people who are much greater, better, and more human than yourself with all your philosophical talk." "But I won't allow anyone to make fun of my friends." "Do you still have my interior portrait?" "I don't know." "I'll have to look for it." "I always carry yours with me." "I have a little easel on my night stand." "Are you a captain?" "No, sir, not this evening." "I'm making your acquaintance this evening the acquaintance of a trusting young man." "I respect you." "Let's spend a little bit of time together." "Life is short." "By the spring outside the gate" "There stands a Linden tree" "Under whose shady branches..." "I like this song very much." "May I listen?" "...I dreamt sweet dreams" "I carved into its bark" "I returned today, and one doesn't sleep particularly well the first night." "Back home again." "So many phrases dear" "In times of joy and sadness" "It always drew me near" "Clear your minds." "Clear your minds." "We will join hands and clear our minds." "Think only of Elly." "And now we'll join hands." "Elly should guess the following:" "Her supernatural powers should reveal to us the person with whom Dr. Blumenkohl spoke his last words before he died." "Well, maybe you arranged this with her beforehand." "I'll decide what she has to do." "Well, then, she will enter." "She will take a salt-shaker from the cabinet, sprinkle the salt over Teacher Popow's head, take out the recorder from his coat pocket, circle around us while playing the beginning of "By the Spring Outside the Gate."" "Then return the recorder to Popow and then sit in front of you on the floor after she has curtsied." "That's too difficult and moreover silly." "If she has supernatural powers, it's not too difficult." "Unless you lied." "Then, please." "Fine, then." "We will see." "And now we'll join hands again." "Concentration." "Elly!" "Elly!" "Elly!" "That's wonderful!" "Squeal, squeal!" "The sound is shrill and full of life." "Drink, drink!" "Refresh your heart for new efforts, rejuvenate your heart." "What we now need are three new, large, cool...." "I mean, large gifts of God." "On the other hand, the gods could accuse us of never meeting their demands." "Emmy, come here." "Please bring us three bottles of Chablis, 1007." " Three bottles of Chablis, 1007." " Yes, good." "Look here, I ask for your attention." "Look at this liquid." "I require your greatest attention, Ladies and gentlemen, for the golden hue of this wine, from the sugar sweated from the Malaga grapes, and this wine, yes...." "This wine is divine in these goblets." "Come." "Have a sip, child." "Go ahead, have some." "Take some bread." "Take your time." "Chew it thoroughly and very slowly, so you taste the salt which coats the palate." "And then drink the wine." "An incomparable gift of God." "Yes." "Well, that's enough!" "Enough ceremony!" "We must now drink to pleasure, Longevity, and love." "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Ah, Emchen!" "Give me one for the table and place the others over there." "Admiral, I'll raise you by 50 francs." "I'll follow and add 20." " 20 francs" " Very good." "I can do that, too." "20 and again, 20." "I must go and get more money." "Wait a minute, hold on." "Sit down again." "Here's some more money, use it." "It doesn't always have to be suicide." "I have great respect for suicide, but it doesn't have to be done at the table here." "20." "I demand to see." "Wait a minute, don't rush." " Give me the cards." " You?" "Give them to me." "You'll get them back." " I'll bring you luck." " Good timing." "And now the moment of truth." "One." "Two." "Three." "And four!" "If you play, then you must wager, too." "Now let's eat!" " Wonderful." " How lovely." "Wait a minute." "Can you tell me what this is?" "This is inedible garbage!" "This is nothing for my friends!" "This is curd and inedible junk!" " I insist that immediately...." " Excuse me." "It tastes superb, this Parma ham" "What are you talking about?" "About the food or...?" "Who do you even think you are?" "Do you have any idea about food?" "This is garbage and will always be garbage, or do you have an agreement with the chef?" " Peter!" " Yes, that's fine, "Peter."" "I know what I'm paying for and what I'm not paying for, and for this damned garbage, I'm not paying a cent." "Maybe we should order something else, a warm meal, if we can convince the chef, all right?" "No, ladies and gentlemen." "No, ladies and gentlemen, may I please ask for your attention?" "Take a moment of time to inhale the fresh aromas of parsley and egg." "Wonderful, isn't it?" "This is a gift." "But let's not forget the bread, the liquid bread, this simple and divine gift of God." "Drink, drink and empty your glasses, so that it doesn't mean...." "So that nobody can say we didn't do justice to life's expectations." " Cheers!" " Cheers!" "Yes, I've known people." "I've known men and women." "I've known cocaine users and others who smoked hashish or were morphine addicts." "But it's not our duty to judge them." "It seems that they weren't in the position to give their due to the simple, natural things in life." "But on the other hand, it's...." "I think it's a mortal sin." "That's certainly true." "Unquestionably most people are too weak-willed, inattentive, unscrupulous, emotionally drained to give justice to the simple things in life." "Yes, correct." "Correct!" "Life is a woman, a woman." "Yes, life is a mighty sprawled-out woman with bulging breasts and a soft belly Leading down to the spread thighs." "Her arms are slender, her thighs are swelling, and her eyes are slightly open in mocking defiance, demanding all that we can give to her." "Yes, she demands all, the resilience of our manly desire." "There's only one thing to do." "To pass her test or be shamed." "Be shamed." "Do you know what that means, young man?" "It means to admit physical failure of desires in the face of life." "That's a weakness for which there is no mercy regarded without mercy and laughed upon." "Disgrace and shame." "Human bankruptcy." "You're spit out." "Finished." "Nothing but a hellish prison." "Deadly desperation." "The day of the apocalypse." " Yes!" " What's wrong?" " Judgement Day!" " Oh, I fell asleep." "Well...." "Forget that." "Continue on, ladies and gentlemen." "It's up to you to live and eat well." "Enjoy yourselves, but don't forget the Holy Scripture." "The Bible tells us that flesh is weak." "It's unfortunately not strong enough to meet life's demands." "Never forget that." "Please don't." "Sleep." "I, myself worship and love sleep with all my heart." "It is the greatest bliss." "But don't forget Christ." "Do you remember Christ?" "In the garden...." "In the garden of Gethsemane!" "Do you remember?" "It's written in the Bible." "He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee." "Then he said to them:" ""Wait!" "Wait here and watch with me."" "And he went there." "As he came back, he found them asleep." "He said to Peter:" ""What, couldn't you watch with me just once for one hour?"" "Then he left once more." "And when he came back, he found them asleep again." "He repeated to them:" ""Say, do you only want to rest and sleep, all of you?" "All of you!" "See, my time has come!"" "Allow me...." "In the name of those at the table, and in place of...." "I mean, you should be assured that we strongly agree." "It is an extraordinary evening, and no one is thinking of sleeping." "You can be assured of that, from every one of us." "Please, love each other." "And respect each other." "Well...." "Even though my time has come...." "Come, for you, it's time to...." "Champagne!" "This is holy." "A holy story." "Tears are always a challenge to humankind." "And then the disciple placed his head on the breast of his master." "Follow me." "Follow me." "Follow me in spirit." "All of you." "All of you, follow me in spirit." "Yes." "In the lively image of a frosty winter morning." "A new day will come when the yellowish-red glow of a night stand. lamp is reflected through the window in the bare branches standing in the garden" "among the cry of crows in the early fog and await the day." "And it feels as if ice-cold water was squeezed out of a sponge and onto our necks and over our skin." "The shock of the early morning." "Well, good night." "Don't you want to give her a kiss good-bye on the forehead?" "She will have no objection, and it would give me pleasure." "I give you my consent." "No." "Your Majesty, I beg your pardon, but it would not do." "Are you afraid?" "No." "I cannot exchange kisses on the forehead with your travelling companion." "It would be nonsense." "Finally!" "Here's one for you." "And for you." "And one left for me, thank you." "I'm pleased to be able to offer you a little refreshment after not having seen you for three days." "Is this not a gift of God, a gift of life?" "Most certainly, please believe me." "I accept asceticism when it refers to moral principles." "I even consider it important, but for the moment," "Let me tell you something, I'll drink to your health." "Forbidden terrain and alcohol in the afternoon." "Sir, if you'll allow me, you should be respectful of this young man and your own personal health." "My health?" "There is nothing better for my health than cigars and cognac, you see?" "Perfect for my well-being." "Three days ago, I had a fever, and a week before, I couldn't even get out of bed, and now...." "Now I have cognac, and I'm sitting next to this beauty here." "And, of course, with all of you." "Sometime soon, Professor, my friend, I'd like to have a philosophical...." "Do you hear that?" "Extraordinary!" "That's a waltz, a waltz!" "Yes, come!" "Come, my child." "Come, come." "Engineer, it seems that you admire this idol worshipper." "Or what else are your large eyes supposed to mean?" "After all, he already took your Clawdia away from you." "And you, what do you plan to do about it?" "Don't go too far, Herr Settembrini." "You're also not innocent of jealousy." "Your jealousy doesn't push you to fight either." "You suffer with patience." "Therefore, the mighty Peppercorn could destroy your relationship with your friend as well as I or Madame Chauchat could." "Everything is all right." "We're fine." "Good." "We're fine." "Sit down." "Are you feeling better now?" "Professor, do you despise God's gift, cognac?" "And you call yourself a man of the Church?" "A man of the Church has no more pleasure in life or...?" "As a man of the Church, I have to defend myself." "Most definitely, yes, I forbid you to speak of the name of God and the Holy Church with your painfully distorted mouth." "Possibly, it is not too late to explain to you that the Church is the embodiment of the religious, ascetic ideal and never was, and never will be, an advocate or supporter of what you lustfully and theatrically embody" "and with your sovereign and pretentious nature display to us." "Contrarily, the most important words in the flag of the Church are revolution and the radical extension of worldly lust and power." "Stay calm, Professor Naphta." "Since when can you be seduced to impose your theories, which are especially dark, onto a person who we know has absolutely no interest of politics?" "Nevertheless, I have to defy you in this situation." "The Church is, and will remain, the protector of dark persistence," "Professor Naphta." "And it continues with progress, even if today it declares to be revolutionary with its eloquent ambassadors and fanatics, such as yourself." "And all that is constantly done under the pretence that its goal is to bring freedom, democracy, and education, but in reality, it only preaches with dictatorship of the mob and barbarism." "Listen to this." "What a great democrat." "You reduce the proletariat to a mob." "Do you mean to imply that the Church" "Gentlemen, please." "Let's not argue." "This is a worthwhile discussion." "Asceticism, gentlemen." "The world, its problems, and the Church...." "These are all highly controversial and certainly important issues, but I believe that we unmistakably deprive ourselves of the holiest...." "Music, do you hear the Tzigane music?" "The wonderful sound, and recognize the nerving accord of death and life, Love and happiness." "All that can be found in music if you only listen closely." "And I don't think we should use music as the background of such arguments." "That would be insulting and insensitive." "Music requires our absolute and unconditional attention!" "So that we can meet the demands of love!" "Our attention!" "End of discussion!" "What is there to stare at?" "Worry about your own affairs!" "I'm calm now." "I'm sorry." "Yes." "I'm sorry." "Ladies and gentlemen I call your attention to the height above." "Are you listening to me?" "Each one of you, Look at that spot up there." "Do you see?" "The black spot circling up there against the singular blue sky, how it circles above without beating its wings!" "Look at it!" "Do you know what it is?" "It's a bird of prey, a grabber." "A bird of prey of unbelievable size." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Oh, my friends, please come here." "Come, come." "Come, my dear boy." "Look!" "Look!" "I most emphatically call your attention." "That is no buzzard, no." "No, that is also no vulture, most certainly not." "No, that is an eagle, an eagle that circles above us and circles and circles without beating its wings, and it circles progressively further into a height that we can never, never reach." "Oh, my friends, that...." "That is the king of the firmament, but even the bird of the gruesome gods, yes, the warrior of the birds, the lion of the air!" "And it has a beak of iron!" "And talons of immense power!" "It strikes the intestines, rips open the flesh into a bloody mess, yes!" "And this bird peers at us with its clear-sighted eyes." "Yes, come!" "Please come!" "Oh, please come, you eerie warrior!" "Soar down and strike!" "Tear out our eyes!" "Use your talons, which are hard as steel, and strike with them, bury them, propel them deep into our bodies!" "Tear out the intestines of these creatures which the eternal God created!" "Come down, attack, strike, yes, until your talons are tangled in entrails and your beak drips with blood!" "Blood!" "Blood!" "Please, forgive me." "Play music!" "For the love of God, please, play music!" "Darling, Pierre, Pierre!" "Why...?" "Why don't you dance with him?" "With who?" "With him." "And I'll go home with the other two." "Do you love him very much?" "I don't think it would be very human of me to discuss my love for him with you." "You...?" "You love him passionately?" "Listen...." "He loves me." "He loves me." "And his love always makes me surrender and very proud." "You know, I belong to him." "Do you understand, or are you not worthy of his friendship?" "I understand it very well." "You know, I have many...." "Many problems with him and many...." "Many worries about him." "And most of all, many difficulties." "They result from his fear of the failing of his feelings?" "We can talk about it with respect." "Everything with him has grandeur, magnificent, kingly grandeur." "It seems you are unchangeable." "I'll tell you something, you are very devious." "I don't know with certainty if you have intellect, but I know that you're rather cunning." "That's not bad at all." "You can live very well like that." "Listen, I would very much love for us to stay friends and form an alliance for him, but not against him, as one usually forms an alliance." "You know...." "Sometimes I'm terrified of being alone especially terrified of inner loneliness." "Somehow it's terrifying." "I'm always afraid that something will happen." "I would feel much more secure if I had a good person on my side." "Well, if you want to hear it...." "Maybe that's the reason I returned here with him." "I mean, to see you." "And you say that my waiting was all in vain?" "I'm sorry, sir" "Please, leave us alone, my child." " Coffee and burgundy!" " I'm sorry, but we've already closed." "Will this be enough to remain open?" "I'll have to ask the chef." "Tell me, do you love Madame?" "I'll repeat my question, do you love Madame?" "I respect Madame Chauchat, of course." "I'm very well aware that your relationship with Madame is much older than mine." "She's a woman of attractive attributes." "I'm just an old ill man, do you understand that?" "But let's get to the topic of interest," "I'd like to remind you of the evening we became friends and dined." "I asked you and Madame to accompany me to my room, and in the doorway, I asked you to kiss Madame on the forehead." "But you refused." "You refused, and I asked for an explanation that you didn't want to give, and I said that you were obligated to, and now I demand that you fulfil your obligation!" "Were you or were you not Clawdia's Lover during her last stay here?" "Consider that it was an evening out of order, almost falling out of the calendar, an hors-d'oeuvre, so to say, an extra evening, a leap evening...." "The 20th of February." "The 20th of February, that's funny." "Answer me finally, do you love Madame?" "Excuse me, Mynheer Peppercorn, but considering my feelings for you, feelings of the greatest respect and admiration, it would not be very human of me to discuss with you my feelings for your charming travel companion." "Then I will formulate it differently!" "Does Madame reciprocate your feelings, your attention?" "I never said that she ever shared them." "I got the picture, my friend, and now I understand everything." "I want to tell you something, if only I was younger then I would answer, man to man!" "I would request gratification!" "Well, then...." "I'll speak differently with you." "We are brothers." "I declare us to be such." "You will be my ally, my son." "We'll seal an alliance as if we were fighting for something we believed in within this world." "And in this case we'll ally in the love we share for another person." "So, then...." "Settled." "And now stand up take your glass and let's drink." "Are you satisfied?" "There is, of course, no word for it, Mr. Peppercorn." "I'm...." "I'm terribly happy, and I still cannot grasp it." "But one should not be surprised if I stumble at first, especially in the presence of Clawdia, who, being a woman, may not be quite so pleased." "Leave that to me." "I'll take care of it." "And now, my...." "My brother." "My son." "Please, do me this favour and leave me alone." "Farewell." "True, it has grown dark." "I could easily imagine Settembrini suddenly entering and turning on the light so that reason could prevail." "Until tomorrow." "I hope you'll have a few fever-free days where you'll be able to meet all demands." "That delights me as much as if I were you." "Good night." "Settled." "God!" "I am here!" "Come!" "If you love me, show yourself!" "You can kill me now!" "Strychnine...." "It is extremely effective." "And it meets our demands." "Recovery with the help of poisons." "The magical powers of this drug resemble the liberation of a throng of prisoners from subterranean dungeons who are pulled out to the light by thunderbolts." "And now leave." "Wait." "Come in." "Madame Chauchat asks that you come down immediately." "Right away." "He had it crafted according to his own specifications." "It's was modelled after the head of a cobra." "Poison taken from crows in the Coromandel Coast." "He was a man of such stature that, for him, the failure of feeling in the face of life was a cosmic catastrophe, a divine disgrace." "Did he know of our folly?" "He guessed it when I refused to kiss you on the forehead in his presence." "His presence is more symbolic than real at this moment." "But will you permit me to do it now?" "Yes, as a last good-bye." "Well, Castorp, old Swede...." "You're bored." "I see you pulling that long face every day." "You're blasé, Castorp." "You've been pampered by sensations." "Am I right or wrong?" "I am right, as always." "I have your latest X-ray here." "Some of the foci have healed, and a few others will soon, too." "Yet you still have a slight fever." "The doctor finds himself compelled to explore new causes." "In my opinion, you have a coccus infection, yes." "I'm profoundly persuaded that you have a strep infection." "No reason to panic." "Everyone has cocci." "Every ass has streptococci." "We have recently learned that one can have streptococci in the blood and not show any notable symptoms of infection." "The bacteriological blood test will show whether I'm right." "If I'm right and if you respond to the injections at all, you can be perfectly healthy within six weeks." "What do you say now?" "Has old man Behrens been holding up his end or not?" "It is only a hypothesis so far." "Yes, but a provable hypothesis." "Tomorrow afternoon we'll tap you, we'll bleed a vein with all the style of the old village barber, agreed?" "Tell me, is it true that you, yourself, have tuberculosis?" "I hear talk of it now and then." "I've been meaning to ask you." "The ill doctor heals the ill." "He is a fellow sufferer of those whose stay he monitors." "Camaraderie between doctor and patient is certainly welcoming." "But perhaps the experience of one's own illness may cloud and confuse science." "Be quiet." "Well, my friend." "Look at what I found in the library." "Here, my watch!" "Elly!" "Elly!" "Elly!" "There it is." "There it is." "Accidente, Engineer." "Has it come to the point where you're playing cards?" "That's not quite it." "I'm just laying the cards out, wrestling with abstract chance." "This morning I easily won three games, one after the other, once only twice through, a record for me." "And would you believe that I've Laid them out 32 times in a row, without being able to get halfway through even once?" "Have you been informed of the newest state of affairs in politics and the development of the world situation, Giovanni?" "The momentary world situation is very dangerous and extremely muddled." "No one can say with certainty how your country will react," "I mean, grand Germany." "Your jokes try in vain to hide the fact that you are conscious of your state." "So then, what Kleefeld told me, and she heard it first hand from little Elly, who never likes to talk with us at the table." " Imagine Elly, and here!" " Yes, yes, of course." "So then, Krokowski seized Elly under scientific pretence." " Unbelievable." " Ghostly!" "Supernatural powers." "Ghostly, I say." "Ghostly!" "Here are the records that Krokowski ordered." " Which one first?" " We will determine that soon." "Are all the candles lit?" "Here we go!" "We're ready, everyone is here, all of the candles are lit." "Ah, Hans Castorp, welcome!" "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a seat and stop talking." "Wait a moment." "I will now approach each of you and with a handshake, take your oath to keep absolute silence about everything that happens in this room." "Have courage, my friend, have courage." "Elly's preliminary control was negative." "So then, comrades, let's begin." "Elly Brand, are you ready?" "Then enter." "Elly!" "Elly!" "Elly!" "How lovely." "Hans Castorp, my friend," "I trust you with the control of the medium." "Follow me." "Pay close attention." "Press the legs of the medium tightly together with your knees." "Then lift your hands, like that." "If you hold tightly, the imprisonment of the medium is complete." "Do not let go or weaken the force of your knees." "Do it in just the same way." "The medium will fall in a trance by herself, as you will soon see." "And when this happens, her guardian angel will speak from her, a young lad with brown tresses named Holger who has already visited us before." "We must address our wishes to him, and not to Elly." "The chain will now be formed." "Talk." "Trance." "Is Holger present?" "She squeezed my hands." "He...." "He squeezed your hands." "Then he is present." "We greet you, Holger." "We welcome you most heartily." "Are you willing, and do you feel capable, to call up any person who has passed on and who might be named by our circle and make him visible today?" "She said yes." "He!" "Very well then, Holger, excuse the mistake in address." "We shall take you at your word." "The name of the beloved, whose presence we request, will soon be called." "So then, comrades, speak up." "Who has a wish ready?" "Who should friend Holger reveal to us?" "We can't keep friend Holger waiting long." "I would like to see my dead cousin, Joachim Ziemssen." "Did you hear, Holger?" "The gentleman named was a stranger to you in life." "Do you recognize him in the world beyond, and are you prepared to bring him to us?" "He squeezed my hands." "Fine, then!" "To work, Holger!" "Music!" "Talk!" "Ziemssen." "Ziemssen." "Ziemssen." "Deep trance!" "Music, Wenzel." "Wagner, please." "I'd like to make a suggestion." "Yes?" "We could...." "I mean, we could play a particular piece of music." "Schubert's "The Linden Tree."" "And why is that?" "The spirit of the piece is very peculiar, very special." "It deals with death and love." "It is not out of the question that the spirit or character of the music could shorten the process." "Is the recording here?" " No, but I can quickly get it." " For God's sake, no!" "That would destroy everything." "Here is it." "Schubert's "The Linden Tree."" "Here you go." "Come, come!" "Come, come!" "Child, child." "Elly, Elly." "Elly, do it, do it." "Child, child." "Child, Elly." "Ziemssen!" "Ziemssen!" "I see him, too." "Forgive me!" "Speak to him, Hans Castorp, address him!" "Speak to him!" "Hans Castorp!" "The real outcome of our Italian's highly praised French Revolution is the capitalist bourgeois state, a fine mess, which one hoped to improve by making the inhumanity universal." "World capitalism, the world republic, full of democrats, is only governed by money." "Is this how happiness and highly praised progress should be understood?" "In reality, it is like the proverbial patient who keeps shifting in bed, hoping each new position will bring relief." "The unadmitted, secret, universal desire for war is a sign." "The war will come." "And the sooner the better." "There is still a well-tried remedy against domestic and foreign catastrophes, which is justice." "Your noble, your Godly concept of justice." "God and nature are both unjust." "Justice is nothing but an empty word of bourgeois rhetoric." "Or do you know when an action is just, or do you even know what action is?" "For example, the assassination of the privy council Kotzebue by Sand, a fraternity student." "That was an action." "But what was it that urged young Sand to do that?" "His enthusiasm for justice and freedom?" "It was moral fanaticism and his hate for anti-national behaviour." "It is always bad to clarify something with an action or help justice to victory." "An action doesn't yield anything when there are intellectual problems to be settled." "Professor Naphta, forgive me for asking if you will soon be done with your scurrilities." "What expression are you using to describe my statements?" "Only with your permission, respected Professor," "I wanted to express that I am resolved to prevent you from continuing to trouble this young man with your equivocations." "It would be appropriate for you to choose your words more carefully." "You consider it appropriate?" "Such a request is unnecessary." "I'm accustomed to take heed to my words." "And my words are correctly chosen because with them I say that you, with what you say, try to mislead and unsettle the uncertain and wavering youth." "Yes, you, you try to immorally seduce them." "Infamy, which one cannot chastise with severe enough words." "And that's why I'm resolved to protest against it." "Infamy?" "Chastisement?" "Ah, so the bleating sheep have taken to butting?" "Have we driven the pedagogical protectors of civilization so far that they draw their weapons?" "I hope your civilian principles will not prevent you from knowing what you owe me, or else I shall be forced to put these principles to a test that...." "Ah, I see...." "That will not be necessary." "I'm in your way and you are in mine." "Fine, then, we shall find some appropriate way to settle our little difference." "Let me say one more thing." "If we, as pedagogues create a doubt more profound than your modest Enlightenment ever dreamed possible," "then we are well aware of what we are doing." "Only out of the most radical scepticism, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute arise, the holy terror that these times require." "Here's to your indoctrination and to my justification." "You shall hear from me." "I will be waiting, Signore." "He challenged you." "He certainly did." "Are you going to accept?" "It was a matter of abstractions, an intellectual disagreement." "The intellectual can never be personal." "Hans, the intellectual can very well be personal." "Then he who is not ready to fight for the intellectual and ideal with his complete character, with all his strength, and with his blood, is unworthy of it." "And what is most important in life is that, despite everything, despite all intellectuality, that one remains a man." "I demand pistols!" "And your much beloved student as a neutral witness!" "It seemed to Hans Castorp as if a demon had come into power, who, wicked and foolish, had long practised under considerable influence, but now unhaltingly and openly declared his reign of power that suggested the infusion of mysterious terror" "and thoughts of escape." "The demon named apathy, Life without time, a life full of worry and without hope, a stagnant life of constant dissoluteness, a dead life." "You should make a "dong" sound." "Can't you pay attention, damn it?" "Laughter and love, that's perfect." "But let me say one thing, there are things!" "But if I can't any other way...." "All of my yearning was for her." "If she would have only thought once of my love for her." "Whether Madame Chauchat has a soul...." "She is a human of flesh and soul." "Her soul didn't want to have anything to do with mine." "And her body didn't either." "And that's why my desire for her is damned to disgrace." "And my body must squirm for eternity." "Why was my desire an enemy to her?" "Am I not a man?" "Is then, perhaps, a somewhat more despicable man not a man?" "I'm in the highest degree, and I swear to you," "I would have topped everyone if only she had ever allowed me to!" "I would have given her all the desire of the world, if only she let me!" "Castorp, and you?" "You only suffered once." "Only once?" "And what about my three bouts of unconsciousness?" "A hell I don't even wish upon you!" "And I wish a lot for you!" "There's not a lot missing." "From sanitarium to sanitarium the same always happened." "When I go sit down in my chair in the rest-hall, who do I find on my right?" "Herr Hirsch, a Jew!" "And who do I find on my left?" "Herr Wolf, also a Jew!" "Everywhere Jews!" "And here, now that I'm here, here in the International Sanitarium Berghof, which is directed by an Aryan, and now, you are sitting across from me, Herr Sonnenschein, and stink so that I'm not able to drink my milk!" "You stinking Jew!" "Can't you go somewhere else?" "Repeat that!" "You stink!" "What happened?" "What's wrong with him?" "What's wrong?" " No, no, no!" " I'll tell you something...." "It's an attack." "It's uncontrollable." "You have no idea, but I know." "It's a body attack." "What?" "What are you saying?" "What is this supposed to be?" "What happened here?" "Listen, we have to call a doctor!" "Doctor Krokowski!" "Director Behrens!" "Good morning." "A magnificent yet cold morning." "At least below 0." "Gentlemen, I'm convinced that we" "Develop your convictions another time." "The weapons, if you please." "Do you know how to use them?" "Pay attention to your friend, in case he has problems." "I don't have any." "Go ahead, do your job." "I won't kill him, amico mio." "I couldn't do that." "I will offer myself to his bullet, because that is what honour demands, but by no means will I kill him." "Get out of the way." "Go to it already!" "On your signal, Castorp." "Ciao, Giovanni." " Gentlemen, don't be hasty" " Silence!" "The signal, please." "The signal!" "Well, then, we will begin without a signal." "Go ahead and fire." "You fired in the air on purpose!" "I fired where it pleased me to fire!" "You will fire again!" "I have no such intention." "It is now your turn." "Coward!" "Unhappy man!" "What did he do?" "What did he do?" "Good day, ladies and gentlemen." "I must ask for your attention, please." "In respect to the situation, the administration of the sanitarium deems it necessary to ask all patients, with the exception of the gravely ill and dying, to leave the sanitarium within one week." "I ask for your understanding in the name of the administration." "Excuse me, please, what happened?" "Excuse...." "What happened?" "Can't you tell me what happened?" "Excuse me, please, what happened?" "Please, I didn't pay attention!" "What happened?" "Please, tell me, what happened?" "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "What's going on?" "What happened?" "For God's sake, what happened?" "Can't anyone tell me what happened?" "War has been declared with Russia!" "War?" "Giovanni!" "Giovanni!" "Giovanni!" "Giovanni!" "I would have preferred to see you Leave some other way, but the gods willed it so." "And so let it be." "Giovanni mio, take good care of yourself." "Be brave my friend, and forgive me." "Farewell, Hans Castorp." "We narrated seven years of your life." "Your prospects are poor." "The desperate dance which you are caught up in will last many a little sinful year yet, and we would not wager much that you will come out whole." "There were moments when you saw the intimation of a dream of love rising up out of death." "Will love someday rise out of this worldwide festival of death, too?"