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(1912) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Ellie Schleussner
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VI



After the New Year we left Switzerland and took up
our abode in Germany; we had decided to stay for a
while at the lovely shores of the Lake of Constance.

In Germany, the land of militarism, where the
patriarchate is still in full force, Marie felt completely out
of it. No one would listen to her futile talk about
women’s rights. Here young girls had just been
forbidden to attend the University lectures; here the dowry
of a woman who marries an officer of the army has to
be deposited with the War Office; here all government
appointments are reserved for the man, the breadwinner
of the family.

Marie struggled and fought as if she had been caught
in a trap. On her first attempt to hoodwink me she
was severely taken to task by the women. For the first
time in my life I found the fair sex entirely on my side;
henceforth she had to play second fiddle. The friendly
intercourse with the officers braced me; their manners
influenced mine; and after ten years of spiritual
emasculation my manhood reasserted itself.

I let my hair grow as it liked, and abolished the fringe
on which Marie had insisted; my voice, which had grown
thin from everlastingly speaking in soothing tones to
a woman, regained its former volume. The hollows in
my cheeks filled out, and although I was now beginning
my fortieth year my whole physique gained in strength
and vigour.

I was friendly with all the women in the house, and
soon fell into the habit of taking a very active part in

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