Adolphe Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

male · contemplative · 1:18 min

Yes, it's true. (MME. CATHERINE: Merciful heavens!--and not a word do you say about it?) I am afraid of fortune, and besides it seems almost worthless to me at this moment. I am afraid of it as of a spectre: it brings disaster to speak of having seen it. (MME. CATHERINE: You're a queer fellow, and that's what you have always been.) Not queer at all, but I have seen so much misfortune come in the wake of fortune, and I have seen how adversity brings out true friends, while none but false ones appear in the hour of success--You asked me if I ever went to church, and I answered evasively. This morning I stepped into the Church of St. Germain without really knowing why I did so. It seemed as if I were looking for somebody in there--somebody to whom I could silently offer my gratitude. But I found nobody. Then I dropped a gold coin in the poor-box. It was all I could get out of my church-going, and that was rather commonplace, I should say.

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