Tbd.
The End.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank, first off, my good friend Ben Shykind, who introduced me to Same Same shops (specifically, the Same Same shop near the Karwa bus station in Doha, Qatar) and without whom (for better or worse) this book wouldn’t exist. I’d also like to thank my editor, Lexy Bloom, my agent, Chris Parris Lamb, Ben Marcus, Caleb Crane, Sonny Mehta, Anne Messitte, Edward Kastenmeier, Gerry Howard, Andrew Ridker, Michael Theodore, Oliver Munday, Maria Goldverg, Jennifer Olsen, Peter Terzian, Ruth Cohen, Dan Wilhelm, Tom Pold, Lisa Silverman, Anna Knighton, Edward Allen, Kate Runde, and, finally, though most important: Violet, Ruby, and Karla.
This book was heavily influenced (rather obviously) by Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. Most of the chapter headings—as well as the short excerpt starting on this page—are taken from John E. Wood’s translation. There are many other references (less obvious, perhaps) to other books (novels mostly, though not exclusively) scattered throughout this one as well, but I leave it to you to sort those out.
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