Question

People hallucinate after drinking a mushroom-based liquor in a fictional, all-male one of these places in a novel narrated by the fungi in its floorboards. In another novel, a former (-5[1])plantation owner takes his colleagues from one of these places to a waterfall picnic, where the water muffles the announcement of his own suicide. It’s not a street (15[1])or shop, but the short story “Father’s Last Escape” concludes a Bruno Schulz (15[1])novel titled for one of these places (-5[1])(*) Under the Sign of the Hourglass. (10[1])Following a Walpurgis Night in one of these (10[1])institutions, a converted Jesuit arrives there to debate the humanist Settembrini. In that novel, an engineer from Hamburg spends seven years in one of these institutions located in Davos. For ten points, name this type of institution that Hans Castorp checks into in The Magic Mountain. ■END■

ANSWER: sanatorium [or sanitarium; or sanitorium; accept health resort; accept Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass or Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą; prompt on hospital; prompt on mountain or Alps or The Magic Mountain with “what type of institution is located there?”; prompt on Empusium] (The first line refers to Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium.)
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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Stephen LiuWe joppingTOAD29-5
Aseem KeyalbruhWhy the Kremlin Hates Bananas5715
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Jaimie CarlsonStatler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl EditorsIll-Advised Buzz77-5
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