“Only thoroughness can be truly entertaining,” wrote Thomas Mann. The very long and very strange The Magic Mountain put that proposition to the test
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“Only thoroughness can be truly entertaining,” wrote Thomas Mann. The very long and very strange The Magic Mountain put that...
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