Bergman Genius

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n as coffee. Nine o’clock, on the dot! Set on so
fateful a collision course, the impact of these two heavenly bodies
met was stupendous-and unavoidable. Sometimes, it’s true, God
intervened and averted it. But mostly His mind, alas, seemed to
have wandered to other matters. And then, between these to
diametrically opposed morning temperaments, arose an unbearable
tension. Controlled at first by Mother’s yawns and Father’s even
more forced and brittle cheerfulness, it gave rise to sooner or later,
to an-for us children-unbearable silence: a silence which in turn, as
the meal approached it’s end, would explode into a grandiose quarrel,
of which Malin and I would be doomed to be witness or-even worse-
be dragged in as participants; cross examined as to who had said this
or who had said that-who was in the wrong and who was in the right?E

Eventually the tension broke between the two and Karin began an affair. In 1925 affair came out into the open and the Bergman’s talked about divorce. Howe...