Edvard Munch
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She smiled with her pale lips
and white teeth.

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We suit each other, don't we?
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You're so strange, Munch.
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In December 1885,
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Hans Jæger's book,
From The Kristiania Boheme

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is confiscated within two hours
of its publication.

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Four months later Jæger
is found guilty of "blasphemy"

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and "violation
of modesty and morality."

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He is sentenced to 60 days in prison
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and the permanent banning
of his book.

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Aimar Sørensen, Minister of Justice
in the Liberal Government.

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I received a copy of the book
from the police in Kristiania

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with certain parts underlined.
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I telegraphed at once to ask
all the police commissioners

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to stop the publication of the book.
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Cell no. 1 of the Møllergaten
district prison in Kristiania.

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Does your imprisonment
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influence your work?
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No, it has no influence whatsoever.
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The fact that good people,
who use literature for diversion,

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scream and cross themselves,
means nothing. I knew they would.


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