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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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the sake of peace to be punished, and when I
have passed the last village and the last crucifix,
my feelings are something like those of a
condemned man awaiting execution.

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I had left an infant six weeks old, and I found
a little girl of two and a half. She turned on
me a searching look, but not one of dislike, as
though she wished to find out whether I had
come for her own or her mother’s sake. After
she had assured herself of the former, she let
herself be embraced, and put her little arms
round my neck. I am in a mood like Faust’s
when he exclaims, “the earth has me again,”
but more tender and purer. I am delighted in
taking the little one on my arm, and feeling her
heart beat against mine. Love for a child turns
a man into a woman; it is sexless and heavenly,
as Swedenborg says. This is the beginning of
my education for heaven. But I have not yet
done penance enough.

Briefly put, the situation is as follows: My
wife is staying with her married sister, for her
grandmother, who is in possession of the family
property, has vowed that our marriage shall
be dissolved, so intensely does she hate me, on
account of my ingratitude and other matters.

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