This summer I decided to reread "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann.
More than twenty years ago I read it and, like all young people blessed with excessive confidence and insufficient biography, came away with the impression that I had understood the book.
Today I am no longer certain of that.
Which is precisely why I am going to read it again.
Because in the meantime Thomas Mann has remained Thomas Mann, while I have read several hundred more books, worn out a few philosophies, parted ways with a number of illusions, and accumulated enough life to begin suspecting that The Magic Mountain contains entire layers that simply did not exist for me back then.
Great books resemble ancient cities.
You do not see them differently because they have changed.
You see them differently because you are no longer the same person who first walked through their gates.
It will be interesting to discover what I missed.
And even more interesting to discover what has been waiting patiently for more than twenty years to finally be read.
During their ‘PRACTICAL MAGIC 2’ presentation at #CinemaCon:
Sandra Bullock: WHY DO WE COME HERE NICOLE?!
Nicole Kidman: WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR MAGIC!!
New look at ‘PRACTICAL MAGIC 2.’
Starring Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Joey King, Xolo Maridueña, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Maisie Williams, and Lee Pace.
In theaters this September.
Dakota Johnson says Sandra Bullock sent her a supportive text message after she won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress for 'MADAME WEB'.
"Sandra Bullock sent me a voice note, being like 'I heard you are in the Razzie club and we should have brunch, we should have a monthly brunch."
(Source: https://t.co/2Hy0bUO0yw)
My mom's watching the news. There was a story about neighbors fighting over Halloween decorations. Skulls & skeletons. People can put up whatever they want on their property. Here's SANDRA BULLOCK
#TheDevilWearsPrada2 vuelve con Meryl streep y Anne hathaway, y #PracticalMagic2 con Sandra Bullock y Nicole kidman…
La comunidad LGTBIQ+ no lo va a ver, lo va a flipar: moda, brujas, glamour, margaritas de medianoche y reencuentro de DIVAS que ya son historia del cine.
Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have taken the stage together to show off #PracticalMagic2 during the Warner Bros. #CinemaCon presentation.
Bullock asked Kidman "why we come here," and Kidman finished the now-famous AMC intro.
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