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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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Quite unscrupulous in his choice of means, he
tormented me for a week long, poisoned my mind
with slanders and stories invented to suit every
occasion, but did it so clumsily that I was more
and more convinced that he wished to have me
incarcerated as a person of unsound mind.

I offered no special resistance, and left it to
my good fortune to liberate me at the right time.

My apparent submission won my executioner’s
favour, and there alone, in the midst of the sea,
hated by his neighbours and subordinates, he
yielded to his need to confide in someone. He
told me, with incredible frankness for a man of
fifty, that his sister during the past winter had
gone out of her mind, and in a fit of frenzy had
destroyed all her savings. The next morning he
told me, further, that his brother was in a lunatic
asylum on the mainland.

I asked myself, “Is that why he wants to see
me confined in one, in order to avenge himself
on fate?” After he had thus related to me his
misfortunes, I won his complete confidence, so
that I was able to leave the island, and hire a
house on a neighbouring one, where my children
joined me. Four weeks later a letter summoned
me to my “friend,” whom I found quite broken
down because his brother in a fit of mania had

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