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On the other hand,Tango who kept his mind of respect  to Moon's mustache

until the very day of their farewell was taken to hospital as an emergency case.

First he stayed lying in bed longer than any other new comer. When he got

better enough to sit alone on the chair in his sickroom ,he tried to walk out

in the corridor. Soon after he could stand alone ,he began to walk farther

to the resting room and dance tango alone holding a pillow as a dance partner

in his arms. After a while he  liked to enter in person to Moon's sickroom

with beberages or something nutritious for Moon in his hand for the purpose of

getting friendly with Moon, whose mustache was attractive to him.

 

He got closer to Moon and also more interested in him,He even dangle after him ,

mimicking his way of citing a pharase of Nietsche as follows:

 

"........

The world is deep,
Deeper than day had been aware.
Deep is its woe.

Joy deeper yet than agony:
Woe implores: Go!
But all joy wants eternity.
Wants deep, wants deep eternity."

 

 The two, Mr. Guaga and Tango left the sanatorium in a Autumn day,
one after another, the former happy at his satisfactory recovery,

the latter with his left chest still in illness. With the two away, Moon felt solitary,

He had to suffer from ennui alone, in no hope of getting back to 'down there' 

doing nothing particular but to hang around in the sanatorium

 

Anyway, books and music replaced the two men. There was no other way

for him but reading books and listening music. After they left him. he put 

literary books he liked near his pillow in bed , one of which was 

'Magic Mountain' by Thomas Mann, It was fortunate for him to have by him.

On reading it, he would like to compare himself with Hanscastrop,

the protagonist of the novel, and Tango with an important character named

Setembrini ,tall and slender, bright-spirited and talkative. And especially 

CC( Carmen of Cordova), whose real name he forgot, was compared

with Chauchat in the story who led Hans into temptation. CC, a slight

tuberculous lady had stayed there for three months. 

When he saw the name of Chauchat in the book. it without fail reminded him

of CC. It was because the poisonous effect she made on hans.

As Hanscastrop in the story' could not muster up enough strength to resist

getting intoxicated by something magic'. Moon couldn't resist getting

fascinated by her.

He did not open the novel without reading the phrase  below:

"When Castorp finds the patient who keeps irritating him by slamming doors

in the dining hall, he is surprised at her attractiveness and, above all,

by her slanted eyes, protruding cheek bones, and the delicate, girlish hand

that pats her hair.

As you know,The Magic Mountain is a work of sick-lit par excellence:

a novel that convincingly portrays illness as a state of mind as well as of body .

Hans Castorp, a naive young engineer, travels to the International Sanatorium

Berghof high up in the Swiss Alps to visit his ailing cousin, Joachim Ziemssen.

What was intended as a stay of a few weeks stretches into months, and

then years, as Hans himself is diagnosed tubercular and dutifully takes his place

there.Hans positively revels in his status as one of the "horizontal": 

During her three-month stay, CC kept two men by her side,who were 

enchanted with her, at the same time. Needless to say, one of the two was

Moon. She liked to invite both of them together to her room. She would sit

near Moon whose status was still not negative ,with no mask on her mouth, 

Moon often called at her room, but whenever he opened the door, he found

the other happy there in her room. playing guitar for her.who loved pop music.

in particular," I wanna hold your hand' by Beatles. Moon was driven to have 

more and more a blind jealousy of her and his rival, whom ,he imagined,

she loved more than himself .

Then one day in the evening in summer, she hesitantly said to Moon

' Hi, Moon, I have to say goodbye to you. I am to leave here tomorrow."

And to his surprise, she whispered to him an unexpected suggestion:

"How about making a train trip together with me toward the east coast?

There is my mother's house by the seaside on the north."

"Really, are you sure?" 

"Sure"

"The down train is available that day?"

"Probably not available in that day. you have to return down the next day".

On the very day of her departure he by stealth accompanied her

to her destination and was welcomed by an old lady alone waiting

for her daughter. The next day he returned to the sanatorium by train. 

The result was inevitably that his illness in the convalescent stage took

a turn for the worse. Nobody knew but one, a nurse the reason why

Moon getting better little by little suddenly returned much worse.