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"How vast and threateningly black
the sky grew.
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"Endless, listening, the stillness of death
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"Close, close and far, far away.
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"How dark it grew.
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"Stay with me tonight.
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"My soul is frightened and anxious.
:59:28
"The dark holds such strange shadows
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"And the stillness such strange tones.
:59:36
"My friends leave and I sit alone,
deep into the night.
:59:45
"What grows bright over the mountains?
:59:48
"What glows over the sea?
What glints through the dark?
:59:52
"What burns in the wind?
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"Not clouds against the red sky.
:59:59
"Not the reflected light
1:00:00
of a day which is dead.
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"It is fire, which licks
and blood which runs
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"A fiery sword and a fire-red river.
1:00:10
"It is the anguish of doomsday
and the torments of death.
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"A scripture, which blazes
through the halls of night,
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"With the mysterious anguish of life.
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"Deep in the night I sat alone.
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"I felt how a pain-filled scream
Passed over the Godforsaken world."
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April 19, 1895.
1:00:46
Munch's younger brother,
Peter Andreas,
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marries Johanne Kinck, age 22,
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daughter of a headmaster.
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Munch writes: "He should not
have gone through with it.