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Richard Dehmel, currently writing
a cycle of poems about sex
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their purpose to raise sexual love
to the level of religious mysticism,
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shortly to be prosecuted
:22:15
because of his description
of a nun masturbating.
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Stanislav Przybyszewski,
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Polish-German author
and medical student
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involved with the occult,
studies satanism,
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who rewrote the opening
of the Gospel of St. John
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to read:
"In the beginning there was sex..."
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And Edvard Munch,
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famous overnight
as the centre of a storm
:22:47
that has rocked the German art world
to its very foundations.
:22:50
Already he has received invitations
to exhibit in Düsseldorf and Cologne
:22:56
and he has been prevailed upon
by the Berlin intellectuals
:23:00
to make his home here in Germany.
:23:06
Right now all women hate Buddhas,
:23:11
hate and humiliate them,
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well knowing that they
will never become Buddhas.
:23:24
Dagny Juell, age 26, daughter of a
Norwegian country doctor,
:23:29
who has come to Berlin
to study the piano,
:23:32
and who has been introduced
to "The Black Pig"
:23:34
by her family friend,
Edvard Munch.
:23:41
On the other hand, she feels
a sort of instinctive sympathy
:23:45
for beggars, braggarts, liars
and dogs,
:23:50
especially mangy ones.
:23:54
Under the eyes of Przybyszewski,
who is in love with her,
:23:57
Dagny Juell now becomes
the mistress of Edvard Munch.