Gustav Monologue from The Creditor

From The Creditor by August Strindberg

male · romantic · 51 sec

Quite right, we must part—but before that, we'll say good-by to each other, won't we? Yes, we will; yes, we will. We'll say good-by; we will drown our memories in an ecstasy which will be so violent that when we wake up the past will have vanished from our recollection forever. There are ecstasies like that, you know. You're being dragged down by a sick spirit, who's infecting you with his own consumption. I will breathe new life into you. I will fertilize your genius, so that it will bloom in the autumn like a rose in the spring.

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