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Norman Ohler

German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

1 book on the record · 1 Sep 2026 – 1 Sep 2026 · @normanohler

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The result was one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century (except my own, of course), but genius does not abolish the moral circumstances of its production.

on stonedsapiens.substack.com · 1 Sep 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.