September 9 Friday – Sam’s notebook:
“Sept. 9. Man hanged himself today, leaving wife & 2 chn & nothing else. He had lost 28 gulden gambling. Countess Wydenbruck took up a collection. Result, 180 gulden—just ten times what he lost
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Man is fearfully & wonderfully made out of microbes” [NB 40 TS 32].
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