Word: siri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
After a sordid divorce from Baron Wrangel, Siri married Strindberg. He wrote furiously-learned history (Sweden's Relations to China and the Tartar Lands), a religious play (The Secret of the Guild), a novel (The Red Room) for which he was denounced as an atheist and a radical. In 1884 he briefly became a popular hero when he was brought to trial (and acquitted) for committing blasphemy in print. He once called Christianity a religion for "women, eunuchs, children and savages." When his four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, Strindberg answered...
...darkness around him, Strindberg saw only enemies, including his own wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...
After 14 years and countless breaks and reconciliations, Siri and August were divorced. He grew a Mephistophelean beard and devoted himself to the study of evil. He roamed about Europe, now trying to photograph the moon, now trying to make gold. He was interested in the Orient and Buddhism...
Turkey, on the alert for quislings, arrested a former member of Parliament, one Siri Bellioglu, who had spent his time lobbying against the Anglo Turkish mutual-assistance pact and writing anonymous letters to ministers. Guns were mounted on the decks of passenger ships and the training period of reservists was extended to keep more men under arms...