Joe Rogan followers don't realize that Sapolsky referred to Thomas Mann's tome, the Magic Mountain.

So at 39 mns into this interview with Robert Sapolsky he refers to a 1000 page novel about tuberculosis.

That was a great joke by Sapolsky but not one of the Rogan followers noticed it enough to comment about it.

First of all Thomas Mann did not have t.b. when he wrote the book, but that is what Sapolsky implies with his joke.

I'll check just to make sure!

https://medium.com/.../thomas-manns-the-magic-mountain-and-illness-ebaae6ff5d6f

Dec 1, 2016 - Thomas Mann does not identify the illness in The Magic Mountain as ... writes, “Up on the Schatzalp there is a man… he has galloping consumption… ... on TB while overtly avoiding name it and still focusing on the disease as ...

Course of Illness | Lapham's Quarterly

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/medicine/course-illness

Reconsidering an epic of illness—Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. ... the epic of a particular disease, tuberculosis, one which has accompanied humans at ... tuberculosis was the Romantic's illness; that is, those afflicted with TB were ... and effective antibacterial treatments for TB did not emerge until after World War II.

Inspiration leaves Mann's mountain | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com › World › Literary trips

Nov 15, 2004 - ... and a half, visitors have been flocking to Davos, the resort made famous by the German writer Thomas Mann in his novel The Magic Mountain. ... inspired Mann's book - an ironic portrait of a group of tuberculosis patients ...

Mann visited Davos in May 1912. His wife Katja had fallen ill with acute bronchitis and had been advised to spend six months in the mountains.

Like Castorp, Mann discovered a spot on his lung - but unlike his hero, he left Davos after just three weeks.

 So maybe Mann did have a "touch" of T.B.?

Anyway I read the novel as my senior year of high school, English thesis paper. I remember enjoying the book immensely but on the last page I had a tear rolling down my cheek. Was I finally just so glad to finish that huge tome or was I sad it was ending? I'll never be sure. haha.

My argument of my senior year high school English paper was that we need to confront death to figure out the truth of life. I never saved the paper I guess.


And so I studied the book of John intensely in high school bible class - at my Christian high school that just recently blew up!

By the way my high school sports team had been called the "Indians" and then we had a Native indigenous activist from A.I.M speak to our whole school. We promptly changed the team name to the Cardinals. That was my first direct experience of an "activist"!

And so "Minnehaha" itself is a made up name inspired by the indigenous name for running water - Minne - with the "haha" added by a deluded European colonialist famous poet - Longfellow.