p.s. strindberg & helium web animation

[arguchik]

a friend emailed me this link:
http://www.strindbergandhelium.com

i laughed my ass off...hope you do too!

Comments

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

aha--he *was* an alchemist! no wonder he was depressed... that sort of explains the connection to helium, but i'm wondering if he made some kind of discovery about that element, its properties or something.

thanks for doing the legwork! i was thinking about it, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. fascinating stuff. i love that he was an anarchist. (anarchist...alchemist...what's the diff? lol)

i love the little kid's accent in the toon with his kids--and that he calls him "herr strindberg." i wonder if the kids in that toon correspond to strindberg's actual kids.

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

It seems like I've heard tales of other 19th century families in which the children addressed their father by titled surname, but none of these are coming to mind now.

Maybe his discovery with helium was that, if he inhaled it, his voice became unbearably cute.