{"id":156,"date":"2024-11-13T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/the-magic-mountain-saved-my-life\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:38:43","slug":"the-magic-mountain-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/the-magic-mountain-saved-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Mountain Saved My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI know everything about humankind,\u201d he thinks, still dreaming, and he resolves to reject both Settembrini and Naphta\u2014or rather, to reject the stark choice between life and death, illness and health, recognizing that \u201cman is the master of contradictions, they occur through him, and so he is more noble than they.\u201d During his years on the mountain, he\u2019s become one of death\u2019s intimates, and his initiation into its mysteries has immeasurably deepened his understanding of life\u2014but he won\u2019t let death rule his thoughts. He won\u2019t let reason either, which seems weak and paltry before the power of destruction. \u201cLove stands opposed to death,\u201d he dreams; \u201cit alone, and not reason, is stronger than death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2024\/12\/thomas-mann-magic-mountain-cultural-political-relevance\/680400\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2024\/12\/thomas-mann-magic-mountain-cultural-political-relevance\/680400\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know everything about humankind,\u201d he thinks, still dreaming, and he resolves to reject both Settembrini and Naphta\u2014or rather, to reject the stark choice between life and death, illness and health, recognizing that \u201cman is the master of contradictions, they occur through him, and so he is more noble than they.\u201d During his years on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}