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He pressed his hand against them.
He was back amongst the trees.
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He felt again how she gave way,
how everything disappeared.
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Once again he felt the tickling softness
against his mouth.
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How often have you sat at home
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and waited for your wife,
listening for every step?
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She said she was going to meet
a woman friend she seldom met.
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October 1895.
The Blomqvist gallery in Kristiania.
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Munch exhibits 40 works.
Amongst them, The Life Frieze.
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The exhibition is heavily is attacked.
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The newspaper Morgenbladet states:
"so much nonsense and ugliness...
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"dreadful... low and repulsive...
grimacing and confused...
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"crude and shrieking hideousness."
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The newspaper Aftenposten
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attacks The Life Frieze as being
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"a number of sensual fantasies,
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"the hallucinations of a sick mind."
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A boycott of the building is called for
and the police are summoned.
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This is the worst I've seen.
I don't understand any of it.
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And the colours are so ugly.
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Besides, it's highly immoral.
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If one goes there, one almost has
to sneak in by the backdoor.