Both Uses of
equilibrium
in
The Magic Mountain
- She would shove over the bed table, which was now part of the furniture, a marvel of one-legged equilibrium, adjust it across his bed in front of him, and Hans Castorp would dine from it like the tailor's son who dined from a magic table.†
Chpt 5.1 *equilibrium = balance
- Dear old Joachim—of late he appeared to be close to losing his equilibrium.†
Chpt 6.1
Definition:
a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance