If I have been feeling worried or sad during the day, I have a habit of recalling scenes from childhood to calm me. So it was this evening.
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I'm so sad! You've hurt me so! You've made a bad woman of me. At any rate, nearly. I never want to see you again, at least not before brunch.
In the early hours of June 1st, I had a weird and very unpleasant dream. I dreamt that during my morning walk I lost my way among empty streets with ruined houses.
Marianne Borg: I saw you with your mother, and I was panic-stricken.Professor Isak Borg: I don't understand.Marianne Borg: I thought: That's his mother. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. And this is her son, and there are light years between them. He himself says he's a living corpse. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold and dead. And I thought of the baby inside me. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. It must end somewhere.