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some remote future, some good folk seem to
suppose that there is no such thing as
retribution, or that we may sow thorns and reap
wheat. Strindberg knew better. He had reaped
the whirlwind, and we seem to feel it
sometimes blowing through his pages.
In the Blue Books, or collections of thoughts
which he wrote towards the end of his life,
the storm has subsided. The sun shines and the
sea is calm, though strewn with wreckage. He
uses some very strong language towards his
former comrades, the free-thinkers, whom he
calls “denizens of the dunghill.” One bitterness
remains. He cannot forgive woman. She
has injured him too deeply. All his life long
she has been “a cleaving mischief in his way
to virtue.” He married three times, and each
marriage was a failure. His first wife was a
baroness separated from her husband, whom
he accuses of having repeatedly betrayed him.
His second wife was an Austrian. In the
Inferno he calls her “my beautiful jaileress who
kept incessant watch over my secret thoughts.”
His third was an actress from whom he parted
by mutual consent. All his attempts to set up
a home had failed, and he found himself finally
relegated to solitude. One of his later works
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