: The Old Room by Ewald Carl Teixeira De Mattos Alexander Translator - Danish fiction Translations into English

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PART I--CORDT 1

PART II--CORDT'S SON 143

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

PREFACE TO THE FIRST DANISH EDITION

I who write this book am still young and fair to look upon and rich and very sad.

My youth and my beauty fill me with horror and I know not what to do with the wealth which I possess. Daily my sorrow sings the same song in my ears. It rustles in the folds of my train; it sighs in the fragrant flowers at my breast. Through the long nights I sit on the edge of my bed thrusting away the dream that comes with glaring eyes.

Now what I have written is a lie.

When I wrote it, it was the truth: now, it is a lie. When I saw it set down on paper, I knew that my youth was my strength and my right; that, if I were ugly, I could not live; and that, if I were poor, I should die.

And now I am glad; and there is nothing on earth but my gladness.

I am in this case.

But I let the words stand as I wrote them, for I know that the time will come--and that soon--when all of them will be true again ... until they once more become a lie.

And so my book will grow, through still and stormy times, until the day comes when I am again what I now am.

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