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Inferno & From an Occult Diary
by August Strindberg, Mary Sandbach
Absolutely one of my favourite books about writers going penniless and begging money off of acquaintances. You have to give Strindberg credit, if only because he'd practically burned his hands to charcoal while doing alchemy experiments in his boarding room and still managed to write this.
He gets angry with his ex-wife when he claims she telepathically visits him after she gets remarried. He recognizes the 196 crown bill for his divorce corresponds to the atomic weight of gold and so he gets back into alchemy. At one point he sees sticks in the shape of Greek letters, at first he mistakes them for his ex-wife's initials, but then he realizes it's a clue to making gold from Iron and Sulphur.
He gets angry with his ex-wife when he claims she telepathically visits him after she gets remarried. He recognizes the 196 crown bill for his divorce corresponds to the atomic weight of gold and so he gets back into alchemy. At one point he sees sticks in the shape of Greek letters, at first he mistakes them for his ex-wife's initials, but then he realizes it's a clue to making gold from Iron and Sulphur.