## Metadata - Author: [[Thomas Mann]] - Full Title: The Magic Mountain - Category: #books ## Highlights - Time, they say, is water from the river Lethe, but alien air is a similar drink; and if its effects are less profound, it works all the more quickly. ([Location 380](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B016HBXGYW&location=380)) - Children and grandchildren observe in order to admire, and they admire in order to learn and develop what heredity has stored within them. ([Location 758](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B016HBXGYW&location=758)) - Only reluctantly would he have eaten butter served in pats rather than in fluted little balls. ([Location 902](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B016HBXGYW&location=902))