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"I lived down in the water
among slime and horrible animals,
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"remembered a time
time when I lived up there.
:54:08
"I forced myself up,
reached for the swan.
:54:13
"Couldn't reach it.
:54:14
"I saw my face, terribly pale.
:54:18
"I heard a shriek and I knew
it was I who had cried.
:54:24
"The swan was far away."
:54:44
Constantly seeking
other forms of graphic art,
:54:48
Munch moves to etching
and aquatint,
:54:51
the use of acid
to bite the image,
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and a base of cooked resin powder
to give added texture.
:54:58
His theme, a man comforting
a crying woman.
:55:06
During the two years of 1893
and 1894, sometimes alone,
:55:11
sometimes with the help of
Adolf Paul, biographer of Strindberg,
:55:15
Edvard Munch lists, labels,
checks, crates and dispatches
:55:19
upwards of 50 or 60 canvases
:55:22
to each of nearly
a dozen major exhibitions:
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Dresden, Breslau, Hamburg,
Berlin, Frankfurt.
:55:31
He travels hundreds of miles
by train.
:55:34
Sorrow... Sunset...
:55:39
Countless hotel bedrooms,
:55:42
often working on three or four
canvasses simultaneously
:55:46
and always under attack.