家后面的芦苇荡，好久没来了。傍晚独自来散步，听干裂的芦苇在风中摇曳。

我很幸运，身在这乌烟瘴气的世界中，却能随时随刻回到天地怀抱里。

诺贝尔文学奖得主Thomas Mann的The Magic Mountain, 十年前读第一遍，没怎么读懂。今年冬天从头到尾再尝试一遍，难度还是很大。常常卡在某一页过不去，于是停个两三天再尝试，发现停顿后再试有帮助，或许是经过沉淀后脑子比较清晰。

这次阅读我似乎发现了一点作者的小秘密，第468页(Vintage Int’l):

“Ah, my pedagogic Satana, with your ragione and ribellione,” he thought, “I like you. True, you’re a windbag and organ-grinder, but you mean well, mean better than that caustic little Jesuit and terrorist, that Spanish torturer and flogger with his flashing glasses. And I like you better, too, although he’s almost always right when you two argue and scuffle pedagogically for my poor soul, like God and the Devil struggling over a man in the Middle Ages.”

从这一段里，我的直觉告诉我，作者并不喜欢犹太人，虽然他不可能明说。 http://t.cn/Ryh9pgF