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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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leaned; the works were supported by four pillars,
and on the globe a date-indicator pointed
to the 13th of August. In a future chapter I
will explain what the fateful 13th of August
brought with it. This and other occurrences
took place during my stay in the Hôtel Orfila
between 6th February and 19th July, 1896.
Concurrently with them a larger adventure
pursued its often interrupted course till, with my
exit from the hotel, a new section of my life
began.

Spring has returned; the valley of tears and
sighs under my window is green and blossoming.
Foliage hides the bare ground and its
unsightliness. The Gehenna has turned into a Vale
of Sharon full of lilies, lilacs, and acacias. I
feel very melancholy, but the merry laughter of
the girls who play unseen beneath the trees,
reaches me and rouses me again to life. Life
hurries by and old age approaches: Wife, children,
home, dispersed and wrecked; without is
spring, within is autumn.

The Book of Job and the Lamentations of
Jeremiah comfort me, for, at any rate, there is
a certain resemblance between Job’s lot and
mine. Am I not smitten with incurable boils?
Am I not visited with poverty and forsaken by

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