3:52 pm |
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain "And yet absolute symmetry and icy regularity characterized each item of cold inventory. Yes, that was what was so eerieāit was anti-organic, hostile to life itself. Snowflakes were too regular; when put into the service of life, the same substance was never so regular as that. Life shuddered at such perfect precision, regarded it as something deadly, as the secret of death itself" |