Tears and underlining: Reading "Doktor Faustus" (1947), by Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

In graduate school, after Professor Horst Daemmrich told me to stop reading Der Zauberberg (1924), by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), and focus on Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947), I turned to the latter novel with the ideas about distance I haddrawn from Mann's novellas Tonio Kröger (1901) and Der Tod in Venedig