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XII
PILGRIMAGE AND PENANCE
There are ninety towns in Sweden, and the
powers have condemned me to go to the one
which I most dislike. First of all, I visit the
doctors. The first speaks of neurasthenia, the
second of angina pectoris, the third of paranoia,
a mental disease, the fourth of emphysema.
This is enough to ensure me against being put
into a lunatic asylum. Meanwhile, in order to
procure the means of livelihood, I am forced to
write articles for a newspaper. But whenever
I sit at the table to write, hell is let loose. A
new discovery comes to make me wild. Whenever
I take up my quarters in an hotel there
breaks out a fiendish noise, just as there did in
the Rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris; I
hear shuffling footsteps and the moving of
furniture. I change my room, I go into another
hotel, and still there is the noise over my head.
I visit the restaurants, but as soon as I sit down
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