‘ … because at the moment of the last fragmentation and diminution of the material, the astronomical cosmos suddenly opened up!
The atom was an energetic cosmic system, in which celestial bodies rotate around a sun-like center, and through whose etheric space comets traveled at the speed of light years, which forced the force of the central body into its eccentric orbits. —-
Was it illegal?, to think, that certain planets of the atomic solar system – these armies of solar systems, who built matter – that one or the other of these inner-worldly celestial bodies was in a state, which corresponded to that, who made the earth a dwelling place of life?—-
The world of the atom was an outside, like most likely the earth star, that we inhabited, considered organically, was a deep inside. Didn't have the dreamy boldness of a researcher of “milky way animals” spoken – cosmic monsters, their flesh, Leg and brain made up of solar systems? But that was the case, as Hans Castorp thought, then caught the moment, because you believed, to have come to terms, the whole thing from the beginning! Then perhaps in the innermost and innermost of his nature lay himself, the young Hans Castorp, once again, hundred more, warmly wrapped, in a balcony box with a view of the moonlit, frosty night in the high mountains and studied bodily life with frozen fingers and a hot face out of humanistic-medical sympathy? —- ‘
(the magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, 1924)