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942.Unfortunately the orchestra was just then playing 'Hear us, Svea1!' and a moment later started on 'A safe stronghold our God is still.'
August Strindberg, The Red Room. trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition) p. 68.
TIME: 1879.
PLACE: Bern's Salon, Stockholm.
1. A national song, Svea being the national mother-figure of Sweden. (translator's note.)
In the centre of the room was a writing table, as big as an altar and looking like an organ with many stops that had been converted into a whole keyboard of buttons and bell-pushes and trumpet-like speaking-tubes, communicating with all the different parts of the building... The big man was slapping his shining boots with a riding-whip, the knob of which was, symbolically, made from a horse's hoof....
August Strindberg, The Red Room. trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition ) p.73.
TIME: 1879
PLACE: Stockholm
It was five minutes past ten, but there was not a living soul there except himself. For a few minutes there was silence, as in a country church before the sermon; then a scratching noise went through the hall ... he perceived a small abject figure sharpening a pencil on the rail.
August Strindberg, The Red Room. trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition) p.78.
TIME: 1879
PLACE: Stockholm Parliament
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