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THE POET AND THE WOLVES
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berg had to suffer humiliation at the hands of the publishers who had entered into a conspiracy to prevent the publication of the work. They formed a testudinal bulwark about the attacked one who ought to have been allowed to look after his own business. When did you, noble souls, form a bulwark about Strindberg when he fought for a just cause and when the assassin time and time again left him for dead in the arena? To fail the Lord of the Land when he was in danger of his life, used to be called by an odious name, and was punished by breaking on the wheel, but in our days, it seems to have become a sort of meritorious deed which may even be the cause of reward.

Strindberg was able at last to have his Black Flags published thanks to the fact that there was one man among the publishers who had not entered into the conspiracy and who dared to challenge the hydra.

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