Thomas Mann (is Re: GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Thomas Eckhardt]

A little late: I have never thought that Mann's works could perhaps have had
an influence upon our American Thomas. The two are just too different, I
believe. Yet, it might be of interest that one of the main characters of
"The Magic Mountain" is a Jesuit, and that the book, if I remember
correctly, for a few hundred pages deals mostly with the confrontation
between Naphta's Weltanschauung and Settembrini's humanist point of view.
Obviously, from "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" to "Mason and Dixon" Pynchon
also seems to be highly interested in things Jesuitickal (it's just too
tempting, sorry).

best wishes to all (and thanks for, uh, most of these P-list-posts; I wish I
had the time...) 

Thomas

P.S. rj, was it really necessary to mention that you're going to spend
Christmas on the beach?