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(1912) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Ellie Schleussner
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THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL


PART I


I



It was on the thirteenth of May, 1875, at Stockholm.

I well remember the large room of the Royal Library
which extended through a whole wing of the Castle, with
its beechen wainscoting, brown with age like the
meerschaum of a much-used cigar-holder. The enormous room,
with its rococo headings, garlands, chains and armorial
bearings, round which, at the height of the first floor, ran
a gallery supported by Tuscan columns, was yawning like
a great chasm underneath my feet; with its hundred
thousand volumes it resembled a gigantic brain, with the
thoughts of long-forgotten generations neatly arranged
on shelves.

A passage running from one end of the room to the
other divided the two principal parts, the walls of which
were completely hidden by shelves fourteen feet high.
The golden rays of the spring sun were falling through
the twelve windows, illuminating the volumes of the
Renaissance, bound in white and gold parchment, the
black morocco bindings mounted with silver of the
seventeenth century, the red-edged volumes bound in calf of
a hundred years later, the green leather bindings which
were the fashion under the Empire, and the cheap covers
of our own time. Here theologians were on neighbourly
terms with apostles of magic, philosophers hobnobbed

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