School Starts
Less time to blog.
Thomas Mann, “The Magic Mountain” (1999, A. Knopf) at 487:
“Death is a great power. You take off your hat and tiptoe past his presence,
rocking your way forward. He wears the ceremonial ruff of what has been, and
you put on your austere black in his honour. Reason stands foolish before him,
for reason is only virtue, but death is freedom and kicking over the traces, chaos
and lust.”



