Endnotes

  1. Reprinted by permission from The Spectator ↩

  2. “Who never ceases still to strive,
    ’Tis him we can deliver.”

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  3. Hospital for the Blind. ↩

  4. “Woe to the solitary.” ↩

  5. L’extériorisation de la sensibilité. ↩

  6. Famous Norwegian novelist. ↩

  7. Nightmare. ↩

  8. See here. ↩

  9. French missionary (801⁠–⁠865 AD). ↩

  10. The title of Strindberg’s first autobiography. ↩

  11. A kind of female vampire. ↩

  12. A botanical treatise. ↩

  13. According to Swedenborg the name of a stage in the religious life. ↩

  14. Strindberg never actually entered the Roman Church. ↩