The Magic Mountain

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this special 200th episode of the History of Literature, Jacke and Mike discuss one of Mike's all-time favorite novels, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. What does Mann do well? What makes this novel so great? And what do the experiences of Hans Castorp teach us about straddling the line between reality and the life of the mind? Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Nouvelle Noel” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. This is for you, Daddy. I took my love and I took it down.
0:27.0	That's the gorgeous voice of Stevie Nix, of course, from Fleetwood Mac, her ex-husband,
0:36.8	Lindsay Buckingham on the guitar.
0:39.7	The song is called landslide, and I found it on a Christmas list in Spotify you know one of those
0:47.3	best Christmas songs of 2019 kind of lists I'm a sucker for Christmas, total sucker, even when the world is going to hell. I don't mind sappy, I kind of like it. But I also like sad, melancholy. You guys know this about me, how I go both ways. Past Christmas songs
1:07.0	I featured include Paul McCartney's wonderful Christmas time, which a lot of people hate is treacle for me.
1:32.1	Reminds me of being 11 years old and excited about snow days and big piles of packages at my
1:39.2	grandparents' house and that excitement and enthusiasm has stayed with me. I still feel it when I'm on the way to one of my son's basketball games and it was easy to feel it when my kids were little and we could all look forward to Santa in presence and
1:54.5	everything else but I've matured and I have melancholy side too which is why I
2:02.0	like Frank Sinatra's I'll be home for Christmas.
2:06.0	I've played all of these for you before you know my faves. I'll be home for Christmas.
2:21.0	You can plan on me if only on me
2:30.0	you can plan on me if only in my dreams.
2:33.2	What a sad song.
2:35.2	And here comes Ella.
2:37.2	Sing another sad song, at least sad in my listening of it.
2:41.4	Sounds sad to my ears.
2:43.0	Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
2:47.0	Let your heart be light.
2:50.0	Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.
2:57.0	All our troubles will be out of sight next year.
3:03.0	They will, that longing in her voice.
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