The Photoplay / A Psychological Study

ercourse, and have an unconquerable desire to free myself from my surroundings. I therefore inf

tirely isolated. The first result was an extraordinary expansion of my inner sense; a spiritual power which longed to realise itself. I bel

l will was not so evil as the counterstroke which I received. A devouring curiosity, an outbreak of perverted love, caused by my frightful loneliness, inspired me with an intense longing to be re-united with my wife and child, both of whom I still loved. But how was this to be brought about, as divorce proceedings were already on foot? Some extr

gested I must set to work with the picture of my dear little daugh

ed to work with the help of symbolical operations. Meantime the results had to be waited for, an

ch larger than the core of a pear. Standing between two cotyledons it looked like a diminutive human brain. One may imagine my surprise when I saw on the glass-slide of the microscope two tiny hands, white as alabaster, folded as if in prayer. Was it a v

, witness it also. He required to be no clairvoyant in order to s

Yet the fact was undeniable that ten human fingers were clasped in a beseeching gesture as if expressing,

nknown powers weigh heavily upon me. The hand of the inv

e hitherto, feels insulted and deserts me, because I had wr

amphlet is at last printed, but when the printer sends me the bill, I find that it amounts to more than double the sum originally agreed upon. I am obliged, to my regret, to pawn my microscope, my black suit, and some remaining ornaments, but, at any rate, my work is printed, and I have for the first time in my life

lived a year here, I begin to notice trifles which I had formerly overlooked. For instance, in three adjoining r

ise. They are hammering nails in the room which is near my bed; then more hammering begins on the other side. A silly trick quite in keeping with the character of these fe

nothing, but, for the rest, is very polite, and promises to turn out anyone who dares to

-want to make me believe that there are "rapping spirits" in the house. At the same time my companions in the restaurant alter their behaviour towards me, and a concealed hostility shows itself in their envious look