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Edvard Munch begins work on the
subjective image of a naked woman,
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seen as from the viewpoint of
her partner in sexual intercourse.
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Around her head,
the halo of a Madonna.
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For his exterior model,
Munch uses Dagny Juell.
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1893.
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An army bill increases the size
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of the German armed forces.
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An anarchist bomb
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explodes in the Paris
Chamber of Deputies.
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When he breathed it felt
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as though his chest had come loose
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and all his blood would pour out
through his mouth.
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Jesus Christ!
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Strindberg has posed
to Munch the question,
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"What is jealousy?"
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and has answered
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"Jealousy is not the fear of losing
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"but the fear of dividing."
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Przybyszewski feels differently.
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He believes that no man
should possess another human being
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and has even offered the key
of his apartment to Strindberg,
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so that he may avail himself of
Przybyszewski's common-in-law wife.
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Strindberg has declined.
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Przybyszewski tells Munch
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that he believes sex
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to be life's basic substance and
the inner essence of individuality,
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the ever-creating,
the transforming and the destructive.
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Sex created the brain,
says Przybyszewski,
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but between them there will
always be a constant fight
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that will inevitably lead
to death and destruction.