August Strindberg was a 16-year old Swede living in Stockholm when an actor in a theatre pulled a trigger 4,123 miles away and Abraham Lincoln died.

  The fates of Strindberg and
  Lincoln were tied to the theatre

Strindberg was a painter, photographer, telegrapher, alchemist and theosophist attempting to reconcile science, philosophy and religion into one tidy ball with no contradictions.

“I feel like a deaf-mute,” he wrote, “as I cannot speak and am not permitted to write; sometimes I stand in the middle of my room that seems like a prison cell, and then I want to scream so that walls and ceilings would fly apart, and I have so much to scream about, and therefore I remain silent.”