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This summer I decided to reread "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann.
More than twenty years ago I read it and, like all young people blessed with excessive confidence and insufficient biography, came away with the impression that I had understood the book.
Today I am no longer certain of that.
Which is precisely why I am going to read it again.
Because in the meantime Thomas Mann has remained Thomas Mann, while I have read several hundred more books, worn out a few philosophies, parted ways with a number of illusions, and accumulated enough life to begin suspecting that The Magic Mountain contains entire layers that simply did not exist for me back then.
Great books resemble ancient cities.
You do not see them differently because they have changed.
You see them differently because you are no longer the same person who first walked through their gates.
It will be interesting to discover what I missed.
And even more interesting to discover what has been waiting patiently for more than twenty years to finally be read.

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