Kindle Notes & Highlights
‘A reaction to extremes can only occur by means of being extreme.
My hatred is an accumilation of all the injustices doled out to me.
Strindberg seemed extremely interested in monkeys at that time. He had a theory that the gorilla was descended from a shipwrecked sailor and an ordinary female monkey. One of his great proofs of this was the similarity between the inside of the paw of a gorilla and the palm of the hand of an old sailor. He showed photos of both, and indeed there was a great resemblance.
sucked up into the noisy repetitions of the water-wheel's rotation: the cycle of eternal suffering. Then a little habitation for pigs: a sty with six doors which became the doors to Dante's red-hot sarcophagi. A step or two further on, the flames of the blacksmith's shop symbolised the heat of hellfire.
