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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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harbour of refuge for me, as for so many other
shipwrecked voyagers. As a punishment, I
shall be driven hence also by the furies. Here
is a beautiful artistic home, ordered domestic
economy, married happiness, with charming children,
cleanness and comfort, boundless hospitality,
charitable judgment, an atmosphere of
beauty and goodness which dazzles me—a paradise,
in short, and I in the midst of it, all like
a lost soul. I see spread out before my eyes all
the happiness which life can offer, and all that
I have lost.

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I occupy an attic room looking out on a hill
where there is an asylum for old people. In the
evening I observe two men looking over the wall
of the institution towards our villa, and pointing
at my window. The idea that I am being
persecuted by means of electricity again takes
possession of me.

The night between the 25th and 26th of July,
1896, comes on. We have searched together all
the attic rooms near mine, and the loft itself,
so as to satisfy me that no one with evil intentions
could be lurking there. Only in a lumber-room
an object of no significance in itself has a
depressing effect upon me. It is only the skin

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