The Magic Mountain on Ocean Steamships: “On the seat beside him lay a paperbound book entitled Ocean Steamships, which he had perused from time to time earlier on his trip”
The Magic Mountain on Don Carlos: “Have you ever seen a production of Don Carlos—the way things were done at the Spanish court? When King Philip enters, all in black...”
The Magic Mountain on Christian Mysticism: “And Naphta named Arndt, who had cursed industrialism and exalted the nobility, named Görres, who had written a Christian Mysticism.”
The Magic Mountain on Sacred Hymns: “heard that old enemy of the Church taunting and inveighing against the Christian sensitivities of the Romantics. Against Manzoni's Sacred Hymns.”
Norwegian Wood on The Magic Mountain: “Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, I told her. ... Then I picked up The Magic Mountain again, reading and sipping brandy and waiting to get sleepy.”