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James Tienappel is Hans’s favorite uncle. He visits Hans at the Berghof sometime after Joachim has left to return to his military service. James’s primary reason for visiting is to convince Hans to leave the sanatorium, but he is ultimately unsuccessful. Upon his arrival at the Berghof, Tienappel takes in the sanatorium with the same ambivalence that Hans did when he first got there, simultaneously disturbed and transfixed by the otherworldly place. Ultimately, however, he reacts with disgust when Behrens, at Hans’s prompting, describes the gory reality of what happens to a human body as it decomposes. James leaves first thing the next morning without saying goodbye to Hans, and they don’t see each other again.
Uncle James Tienappel Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle James Tienappel or refer to Uncle James Tienappel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 6, Chapter 5: An Attack Repulsed
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And that was the end of the attempt by the flatlands to reclaim Hans Castorp. The young man admitted quite openly to himself that such total failure, which he had seen coming, was of decisive importance for his relationship to the people down there. For the flatlands it meant a final shrug, the abandonment of any claim; for him, however, it meant freedom finally won, and by now his heart no longer fluttered at the thought.
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Uncle James Tienappel Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle James Tienappel or refer to Uncle James Tienappel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 6, Chapter 5: An Attack Repulsed
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And that was the end of the attempt by the flatlands to reclaim Hans Castorp. The young man admitted quite openly to himself that such total failure, which he had seen coming, was of decisive importance for his relationship to the people down there. For the flatlands it meant a final shrug, the abandonment of any claim; for him, however, it meant freedom finally won, and by now his heart no longer fluttered at the thought.
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