This is my 300th blog post! It has been nearly two years since I’ve taken up the art of writing, although I always wrote in a journal when I was younger, and now here I am, getting ready to embark on a new epoch…David Brooks did a survey among old folks and found that the… Continue reading My 300th Blog Post; Classic Literature and Life
Tag: THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Climbing The Magic Mountain
Reading works in translation is like seeing your love five years after you’ve gotten over her. It’s still nice to see her, you still know her soul, but it’s not the same. All I can say is thank god I can read Shakespeare in the original. I’m reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. It’s… Continue reading Climbing The Magic Mountain
Daniel the Writer 