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and Munch is ordered
to remove his "Schmiererei".
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The Kunstchronik charges
Edvard Munch
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with "brutality, crudity
and baseness of expression."
:17:15
The National-Zeitung accuses
"this man E. Blunch"
:17:19
of selling himself body and soul
to the French Impressionists.
:17:26
Edvard Munch has arrived
in Imperial Germany.
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One critic even states
that Munch knows next to nothing
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and should only exhibit
if he is in dire peril
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of dying of starvation.
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I went to the Rotunda for a laugh.
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Theodor Wolff,
editor of the Berliner Tageblatt.
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But, my God, I didn't laugh.
:18:08
I found a great deal that was strange,
even disgusting
:18:15
but I also found tones that were delicate,
almost too sensitive.
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A dark room washed through
with moonlight. Lonely roads.
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The secretive Norwegian summer night.
:18:35
I felt as though I heard
the breathing of melancholy people
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struggling with their problems.
:18:44
No sound came from their breasts.
:18:47
They sat alone by the shore.
:18:50
My God, I didn't laugh.