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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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“Always dissatisfied, my child?”

She does her best to allay my discontent, but
when the spirit of dissension is once aroused,
everything is in vain. She tries to remember
my favourite dishes, but everything goes wrong.
There is nothing I dislike more than calf’s head
with brown butter.

“Here is something nice,” she says to me,
“expressly for you,” and sets calf’s head with
brown butter before me. I understand that it
is an unconscious mistake on her part, but can
only eat with scarcely-concealed repugnance and
simulated appetite.

“You are not eating anything!”

It is too much! Formerly I attributed these
annoyances to feminine malice; now I acquit
everyone and say, “It is the Devil!”

*



From my early days I am accustomed to plan
out the day’s work during my morning walk.
No one, not even my wife, has ever been allowed
to accompany me on it. And, as a matter of
fact, in the morning my mind rejoices in a feeling
of harmony and happy elevation which
borders on ecstasy. My corporeal part seems to
have disappeared, my griefs to have fled; I
am all soul. The early morning is my time

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