A Reading Journal
essences of Mann, McCarthy and more
These titles, these tomes, thick with condensed histories
What will they reveal about the world that was?
What could they possibly know about the world to come?
Are they standing in the way, leading the way?
Or simply leading us astray?
I hereby aim to reconstitute their essence into droplets.
1. Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann (1947)
It’s the third or fourth t…