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in many things. it's also a 1000 pages long. it's a literal literary, heavy weight. so what makes it worth the reading or even a 2nd reading the. ringback the magic mountains, 100 year anniversary is being marked with an exhibition into most month hometown and flew back with stage production. even a sequel, not written by someone's by himself, obviously. but 1st, what's it about to okay, what's the same? it's the swiss alps out of senatorial, that's a kind of health resort or clinic, where people think the fresh air will cure them of a long disease. and there was plenty of long disease at the time, 2 months, months such as novel and $19.00 oh, $7.00, winter birch and los is still a leading cause of death in here. and the best treatment people can get if they can

afford it, is breathing good air and just waiting around to get better. and they can wait a long time, answer if the story is young here, some us months, main character who goes to visit his sick cousins. how does the people we meet this character, hans cast or 9 who travels into this world and ends up staying for 7 years and is confronted with all the ideological political and philosophical debates of the time? that's i. what's funny about the book is, even though his car stop is actually healthy, he really gets into the santa torrie, the people, their philosophical debates, and just the culture of being a patient. there are strict health routines, luxurious meals, obsessive temperature, and taking the ends up and living like one of them was on the end thoughts and then in an isolated hermetically sealed place. the questions of humanity are played out on all possible levels. even the cons, billing was progress, science love plays a major role. this is very present. and so all the big topics and so much mind

creates to character patients at the clinic who really are polar opposites and their philosophies, sets and brittany on the one hand, p stands for progress and individual freedom for in the late fenders nafta. she wants to see society dominated by it, so tower, terry and rosie to talk with her and resumes were starting to take power in europe at that time with the rise of communism as fast as, as concerns cast off as caught between these 2 that the whole novel revolt around the decision which site to take, but at least both these characters become honest costs are mentors and he's really torn between the $2.00 philosophies. eventually, exclusive debates turn violence to rival space, often a deal. and that's just the beginning of the violence. the book ends in 1914 with the start of world war one has cost or disappearing. and so the chaos of battle. when the magic mountain came out, it quickly became an international best seller, translated into many different languages. and over the decades influential people

have claimed it as their favorite book, like american critics, susan sontag, who said she'd read it 7 or 8 times in span. big fan clubs cropped up at schools and universities. and there's no, you don't have to have 3 talk trips in nature to understand to them this month because there's a lot of iron in human in his work. no more. it's about very serious things. but the book itself is an enjoyable experience. and there was some really hilarious things from you. and so in the meant that you send us a copy of cc, much one group of people who didn't think the magic mountain was funny. it was the tourism board and both switzerland. they thought the books made the town look bad. they actually asked another big german writer of the time cause tests not to write a novel that paints of the town in a better way. thomas mon lab, quite a while born in 1875 at the beginning of the german empire, his diaries reveal,

but he was bisexual at a time when that was not accepted of 1929, he won the nobel prize for his novel vote. inbox later, the fled nazi germany with his wife, katya, a jewish convert to christianity, and there are 6 kids. so let's take a step back in 1912, katia of mine had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and told him as mine went to visit her at a sanitarium and of a switzerland that became his expiration defense. to fill it with mon, it's all coincidence. and so we imagined he must have sat there for years, thinking about how to do it. but it's all coincidence. so 5, originally wanted to write the magic mountain as a short story on. and it turned into a 1000 page novel insight. and it took him 12 years to write it. he was interrupted by world war one, but also he was going through a shift in his own mindset. when he started writing the book, he was very pro more said 15 in 1914 thomas mine allowed himself to be carried away

by the and suzy as him for war that was driving many intellectuals officers, writers and artists of the time. so he was in the front line of advocating for it. and in 1918 when germany was defeated, it was a lost cause and he went to a very isolated last month, almost 9 switch sides. and in the 1920s he became one of the most eloquent defenders of the republic and by the 19 facilities during his exile in the united states, a true believer in democracy. they will come when the nazis came to power in 1933, thomas my left germany with his family and up to switzerland. 10 to the united states. and later, back to switch from us mind advocated for tolerance and human dignity. and some of the dive in 1955. it's almost mon wrote the magic mountain. she was thinking about his own process of political transformation. he puts a lot of the old, him, the pro war him, that he distance himself from,

into the character of nafta. left me hand to muslim watson price is me most about thomas. mine is honest and sincere willingness and courage to change his mind. to put his views, the task again and again, and to arrive at new views or to stand up for those new views until until he revises them. again. i think of some of whom do i have to give them. the magic mountain reflects exactly that in this up when the magic mountain came out in 1924 european society was really on edge versus feeling like today. actually the restlessness of heightened tensions, existential dread, and the feeling that society could go off the rails. that's what i can do. what was in the air, he writes in the novel, you can sense of tremendous on ease of fear of the future. and suddenly there's the situation at the end of the novel, where things are unraveling, uncertain as to where they start hitting each other,

where they're cursing at the steps where the craziest ideas of merch off and people are literally losing their minds, boston and as walters. someone's mind writes about total polarization division. people who stopped listening cuz now we're at that exact keeping points today and this time of grades irritability all you have to do is turn on any evening talk show and you'll see that people are interrupting each other. not listening, just yelling out the opinion and sign when it goes to holland minus the politics falling into populace. and what we now call hate speak to this information. this is the tensions and the dangers that are later going to lead to the fall of the weimar republic. germany's 1st attempt, real parliamentary democracy ended with the nazi here is coming in, if you can follow it in vivid detail. he describes it with a tremendous aesthetic sense and tremendous psychological insight creates an atmosphere where the end, you just wonder who will shoot 1st, 1st in the jewel,

and then at the very end, the war in which the whole thing culminates. the pursuits 1st. even today we see people turning the violence and they can't get their way with work. they look at them, i think it's sadly current. we should keep that in mind and not in a good way. it's been a century a 100 years and was still at the same place. people will stuff and then use me. yes them or is couple. see what, at the end of the magic mountain to him, us mon asks, out of this universe of feast of deaths, out of this extremity of fever, tingling the rain washed evening sky to a fiery glow. may it be that love one day. so now who do you manage? you should be ashamed that we still have an answer. the books grazed final question after this universal feast of death may be that loved one day shall mount this question about the horrible 20th century. 21st century is starting the exact same way with the next universal feast of death in ukraine. and the middle east of

mine was also ahead of his time when it came to sexuality earlier. nobel as 20 o career guy and death in venice at strong homo erotic under the magic mountain contains motifs that are obviously clear best as long as it gets one of the books greatest strengths that it breaks every cliche, especially when it comes to questions of how to talk about the body sexuality under . ros. this isn't the whole thing. comes custom falls in love with a woman, but i'm so shocked. but she reminds him of a male classmates that he wants. fans. defies the. the question of what a man is. what a woman is, what's masculine, what's feminine, and what is perceived as attractive, erotically attractive? all of that is fluid here. and gender fluidity was not mainstream. thomas monster and homosexuality was totally tab boot for most of society. just it was a criminal offense. in the 19 twenty's thomas mind campaigned against paragraph

$175.00, which criminalize homosexual relationships. and i understand, tell us about the own desire for man was something she lived out and secret to the outside world. she was an upstanding, heterosexual citizen, with a wife and 6 kids. love, hates politics and passion. they're all here in the magic mount someone's mind leaves it up to you though, how you want to interpret that. i'm just going sometimes we have to find out own way you just like the characters in the story. you can, i think that in times of the fake news and everything happening quickly. this idea of having to read with critical lies and do that for ourselves and stay awake. that is the most current seeing that number and that's what i liked the best. okay, so i sort of myself, do i a as was located monumental style and in case the idea of reading a 1000 pages seems overwhelming my document, you can always skip a hand these lots of readers have told me which parts they skip it at the top and then i'll, so let's get to it. what fascinates you most about the magic mountain? let us know any comments

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a prestige project reserved for super powers. nowadays, private companies are transforming it into a viable business model. building rockets and seeking technical solutions to make leaving earth more affordable. the path to the stars is full of highs and lows. but for these entrepreneur is there's no turning back. they've been lowered by the bound looseness of space and all it's treasures. the escape of interest in suspense. i. there's so much out there. the universe is infinite, infinite power, infinite prosperity. i just need to get out there and grab it with the

the industrial area of ins. brooks is home to the headquarters of the austrian space for them. the astrophysicist cannot scroll now, leads preparations for the private research organizations. next tomorrow's mission . the homeless and go through the senses one by one to check the wiring to see if we can improve the routing of beats. could you take off your helmet? looks like as they're planning to add new features to the space suit simulator. listen, go cheap, an up. com shift is essentially a kind of space or some kind of width it computed into slice to if we can measure many things. nothing with the aster, no c k g, but also simple things, things and you can eat, drink and even go to the toilet into slices. and can, you can try that out. if there's one thing you want to avoid it. sneezing in a space. so it's a mess, anything to us. so we have a small piece of fabric here where you can scratch your nose,

ends up to anything. so small things sit on high tech, but they significantly improve the lines of analog astronauts. and it will go from alton, dental consulting barclays firefox. scientists have been refining the suit for over 10 years. the latest edition is a new set of sensors, measuring the astronaut the level of exertion during the next analog mission. visa, how much succeeded by seats simulate to review unique in your thoughts don't it's by far the best simulation tool we have reproducing the stresses that people will one day experience while working and living on minds and got some kind of ever since his 1st glimpse of space appearing through a telescope as a child cannot clairmont has wanted to reach for the stars. to get closer to his dream, he became an analog astronaut. a researcher on earth studying space travel to begin the from the also indicates that sounds like there's plenty suggest the 1st humans to land on the red planet in the next 20 to 30 years. all that means just the

person who will take the 1st step on mazda has already been sold. you know, way we're generation of ship field is creating the equipment that will likely enable the most complex and competitive dangerous journey. isn't like every other one that lead us to a new well, he puts on the so called excess skeleton artificial resistance simulates the pressure conditions astronauts will face on mars. to raise my hand, he stays in a neutral position. he doesn't throw himself all if i make a feast, it takes a bit more strength than usual. this way, i can precisely simulate the physiological stress cat. last, the pressure i space suits on mas would exist awesome the pool bellflower in the house. since tech millionaires like a long musk started building rockets and exploring space as an economically viable undertaking,

the industry has boomed. numerous startups in europe now aimed to join the gold rush in space. the we're on the road with chef on pollution founder and chief engineer of rocket factory out sport in bavaria. he's taking us to a former military side housing, an old ammunition bunker. the company rented it to avoid paying for certified testing facilities. lock in factory encourages improvisation. it's aim is to build a rocket that's on be to believe in expensive what did you guys do with this company? what this company reveals? yeah, it was results. so the 1st one was the one on, on the helicopter. and inside the anointing, and we're running a critical test today. these are, this test will show us if this turbo pump has the performance,

we mean lighting up decent total pump, the, the performance performance isn't there. the rocket won't return all of that to them. but the okay to need all the training that's cool is going to run it for this test, the turbo pump is driven by a helicopter engine. can it would stand the power of the motor? that's an awesome sound, right? yeah. no, when a symptoms could get toner part, everyone has step back to observe the tests safely. step on vivacious can tell by the sound whether it's delivering the desired performance the last day of the test when very well a worthwhile investment today. i think we're gathering data on the turbo pumps. improving the engines, improving the we're getting closer to being ready to fly into orbit to heights. and

in order to feed rockets, factory outs boggs, headquarters are 30 kilometers away. step on pollution. started the company with a partner in 2018 at the age of 33 to the firm. now employees around $300.00 people from over 40 countries funding for the development of the rocket is being provided by venture capital to cut costs. the company uses standardized industrial components vmc seem to take these. there are lots of technical details up differently, but this is essentially a be or storage tank like the ones you find in breweries. i think that's using a beer tank to reach space. it's an idea patient got from an a i to build a rocket engine. his engineers are using automotive parts and components made by 3 d printers before starting his company positioning,

studied aerospace engineering in australia and worked in the industry for 10 years . yeah, it says here, this is the heart of the engine. i keep them all to a rocket engine. is a miracle of because it looks like it's amazing that it works at all. the guns it all space travel itself is an absolute miracle. and yet no one ever really thought it wouldn't work. it's got food in my 2, lots of good to just talk. there were many mathematicians who said it wasn't possible to reach space, gets that's due to the laws of nature. instead of clicking on the hosting and then i'm over 60 years ago, the russians proved it was possible by putting a satellite in orbit. save me with that, but just based exploration took off and off the phone for the x to the v shanks. father was a helicopter engineer, step on set his sights even higher, choosing rockets instead of the ultimate challenge for any engineering enthusiast the

escape may i ask him and there are over 100 companies worldwide trying to do the same thing and stick to build rockets as cheaply as possible so, so of lights can reach orbit at lower cost and such and generate more data is indeed all of it becomes what i mean by secrecy is important. the thing is that at least to get my mind to and commercial ventures, there's something even more important come at 10 meg speeds look plus fuel distributor, specifically. but if you have to make it happen as quickly as possible, 80 notation becomes deal on most space. 6, let the way in commercial space flights with a grand goal of colonizing mars. for the moment, however, most profits are meant to launch satellites into low earth orbit. in 2023, the total number of satellite circling earth tops, 7500. it's big business for rocket builders.

this commercial use of space has been dumped new space and germany wants to be part of it. its new space initiative was founded in berlin in 2021. as part of the federation of german industries, it's a market that's already worth billions. as more and more sectors depend on digital networks as the initiative leader mathias back to explains this and, and that's in all these days. the exchange of data happens largely via satellites in a space based system testing is that so that's why a new space is a key issue for the entire credit of germany in australia and why we're so committed suicide to email on this. i believe it holds great potential for german industry and for the future and competitiveness of german industry. so when you get

that up, so it's kind of watching to see the rocket factory out. spork is one of 3 german startups developing small rockets to transport satellites. no one is willing to show their hand an air everyone wants to be 1st is when you come inside or they will make it to face and we'll keep going open even when the odds are against us. we find a way to venture out, learn more and answer the bland question on once the course. in fact, why do we exist at all? why are we here in the yes, the step on patient likes to spend his evenings at the work bench in his garage. the didn't he didn't talk to you soon. i'm here every day. and usually until midnight goes with my leave without this, my life just wouldn't work extra without this workshop. i wouldn't be able to get

by. i think i need to do these kinds of things. mostly his 1st day. i want to invest as much time as possible to move things forward. i go onto things . he's convinced that new technologies will keep improving life on earth. by day he builds rockets in the evening. the attempts to revolutionize the current engine than these more of any somebody i've been working on this engine for a long time, almost 10 years now. and yet. that's the sort of it sounds crazy, but i finally proven that it works as mike, it's like that with us as a completely emission free engine complex, essentially a combustion engine with rocket technology. and then what's more to on the track, he, we build rockets like cars that are key. and here at home, i build cars like rocket, let's keep a clean combustion engine. making the impossible possible, both on earth and in space like you on most. he's convinced that humans will become

an intergalactic species, which is not to be for them to be stick. it's a free feel that humanity managers to set up a base on another planet if possible. a place that's inhabited continuously from then on for the 1st step. that's the 1st step, one mark off the moon. there are various targets, but mars definitely makes a lot of sense if he's in the space tourism colonies on mars and the moon asteroid mining, the promise of a limitless growth in the infinite reaches of space. the bunch of this still sounds like science fiction, but expectations are high. according to a study by the federation of german industries, the market for space based applications could grow annually by 7.4 percent, to over at trillion euros by 2040 the

sand pits in upper austria. sides of gale north to them is public presentation of the austrian space forms upcoming mission to march, the more than the romance of space. it's the multi $1000000000.00 economic opportunity that officials say austria should not ignore the based on me, the base lady, not the most for ya, might one day become a brand. and these could be seen as the 1st of all. so stuff aside, the the minus rovers are drawing special attention developed for the upcoming mission by austrian and german students. they're designed to explore on familiar terrain as autonomy slowly as possible. i'll go ahead and drive.