At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women August Strindberg
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The last thing I wanted was to show anyone how much I loved my wife, who was staying at the hotel. The best way to hide it was to concentrate on her. I noticed that the flowers she’d arranged were all varieties of anemones. These are tiny flowers with a deep-red centre and spread out in waves, so they resemble waves of the sea.

Their delicate shadows evoked an image of women wearing dresses made of anemones. For me, this was a perfect image of my wife’s beauty, which is to say, the beauty of the sea.

Source: Madmans Defence

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