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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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collect my thoughts. Is it radiating electricity?
No; for the compass has not been affected. Is
it a diseased state of mind induced by fear of
the fatal hour of two o’clock? No; for I have
still the courage to defy attacks. But why must
I light the candles and attract the mysterious
fluid? In this labyrinth of questioning I find
no answer, and try at last to go to sleep, but a
new discharge of electricity strikes me like a
cyclone, forces me to rise from bed, and the chase
begins afresh. I hide myself behind the walls,
lie down close to the doors, or in front of the
stove. Everywhere, everywhere the furies find
me. Overmastered by terror, I fly in panic from
everything and nothing, from room to room, and
finish by crouching down on the balcony. The
grey-yellow light of dawn begins to break, the
sepia-coloured clouds assume fantastic and
monstrous shapes, which increase my despair.
I repair to my friend’s studio, lie down on the
carpet, and close my eyes. After barely five
minutes’ quiet, a rustle awakes me. A mouse looks
at me and seems to wish to come nearer. I drive
it away ; it comes back with another one. Good
Heavens! Have I got delirium tremens, though
I have been quite temperate the last three years?
(In the daytime I find that there are really mice

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