All 3 Uses of
mutation
in
The Magic Mountain
- Supporting his arguments with all kinds of examples and anecdotes from the books and loose pages that lay on the table before him, even reciting poetry a few times, Dr. Krokowski discussed love's frightening forms—bizarre, agonized, eerie mutations of its symptoms and omnipotence.†
Chpt 4.6 *
- Put more academically, it is the purification, mutation, and refinement of matter, its transubstantiation to something higher, its enhancement, as it were.†
Chpt 6.8
- It is the epitome of all hermetism— nothing less than the vessel, the carefully safeguarded crystal retort, in which matter is forced toward its final mutation and purification.†
Chpt 6.8
Definition:
a change in the genes that determine biological traits; or the result of the change