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Ah! Thank you Christine - I will make those adjustments, I start my recording these days at around 6.30am (to avoid traffic noise) which might just have something to do with that error!!

Hi Christine, her is section 31, and the finale of Peeperkorn's midnight festivities. (26.28)
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/magicmountian2_31_mann_128kb.mp3
Best wishes Steve

Yes, Christine, Claudia has something of the Hollywood vamp about her... a perfect role for Marlene Dietrich?! On the menu & wine cellar at the Berghof I suspect that their catering arrangements may have something to do with the enormous fees (bribes?) paid to the institution by the clientele......

Dear Christine S30 herewith. I hope this section is as enjoyable to listen to as it was to read and edit: a lively and entertaining three-hander scene between Hans, Claudia and Peeperkorn... (24.33) Best wishes - and happy Easter to you and Anne! Steve https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/magicmounti...

That does makes sense

Now taken down the S29 volume and re-uploaded!

I will tweek down the volume post haste! The Vol 1 Claudia is a pretty thoroughgoing Hollywood femme fatale, the crashing of the door behind her as she enters the dining room is one of the many tour de force moments in the first three hundred pages of the novel. As you may also have gathered the Hof...

Dear Christine, here is Section 29 at 23.12. Two new faces in the story! The return of Claudia, whom you will know well if you have visited Volume 1 - and a new character, Peeperkorn whom I awaited with trepidation as his personality is very idiosyncratic. In the end I adopted an understated voice f...

Hi Christine, I can't tell you how much it means to have your continuing enthusiasm and support, I sometimes feel as if I am trudging through a whole mountain range of nebulous snow, especially now half way through Vol 2 (so near yet so far), but when I read your words I feel new energy and purpose!

Dear Christine, I have two links for you today because I decided to extend section 27 a few pages to the end of the chapter. It makes it a longish section at 34mins, but it means that the whole of Joachim's passing is contained in the same reading which I think is the better solution for the listene...

Thank you Christine as always.
Yes it is so rich in its depiction of Joachim's passing and I confess I felt a bit choked reading it. I shall miss him and those large round innocent eyes!

Dear Christine, here is section 27 (23.50)
This section will speak for itself and I shall not spoil it for you, except to say that this is Thomas Mann at his best.
Very best as always
Steve
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/magicmountian2_27_mann_128kb.mp3

Thank you! I love the moments when Hans and Joachim cannot quite meet each other's eyes... so very poignant.... warmest wishes Steve

Hello again Christine!
Here is section 26 (20.12) and the return of Joachim toward the centre of the stage (after a final round of verbal duelling by S and N). At last I say!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/magicmountian2_26_mann_128kb.mp3