Kierkegaard (34 page)

92
: “struck completely speechless”: R. Schlegel,
Encounters
, 35.

93
: “I did not say one single word”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

93
: “You could have talked about Fritz”: S. Kierkegaard to R. Schlegel,
Encounters
, 35.

93
: “a profound, powerful soul”: Sibbern,
Encounters
, 215.

94
: “discord had already arisen”: Sibbern,
Encounters
, 213.

95
: Sermon assessment: Hannay, 138.

97
: “The exposition suffers . . . it would be fruitless to express a wish about this”: Madvig,
Encounters
, 30–31.

97
: “Despite the fact”: Ørsted,
Encounters
, 32.

97
: “For a dedication copy”: JP 5322 (II A 749 n.d., 1838).

98
: “Above all, forget”: SLW, 329–330.

99
: “feminine despair”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

99
: “In the name of Jesus Christ”: JP 6482 (X1 A 667 n.d., 1849).

99
: “I have to be cruel”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

99
: “scoundrel”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

99
: Jonas' angry letter: Hannay, 158.

99
: “She fought . . . to have to be so cruel and to love as I did”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

100
: “The act . . . I beg you not to break with her”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

101
: “Will you never marry? . . . Promise to think of me”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

102
: “crying in my bed”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

102
: “If you do that”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

102
: “I was reminded of her”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

102
: “The few scattered days”: JP 6163 (IX A 67 n.d., 1848).

Chapter 6: Writing Life

103
: “after which I decided to pay”: S. Kierkegaard, Garff, 208.

104
: “a particular nook”: S. Kierkegaard, Garff, 207.

104
: German waiters: Brøchner,
Encounters
, 230.

104
: “Søren Kierkegaard”: Smith,
Encounters
, 58.

104
: Doctors: See letters to Emil, JP 5548 (Letters, no. 62 January 16, 1842) and JP 5551 (Letters, no. 68 February 6, 1842).

105
: “Here, a groan”: JP 5548 (Letters, no. 62 January 16, 1842).

106
: “bears a striking resemblance”: JP 5542 (Letters, no. 54 December 14, 1841).

106
: “I am too old”: S. Kierkegaard, Hannay, 163.

107
: “Anonymity”: JP 5551(Letters, no. 68 February 6, 1842).

107
: “I am coming to Copenhagen”: JP 5552 (Letters, no. 69 February 27, 1842).

107
: “To produce was my life”: Joakim Garff, “To Produce was my Life: Problems, Perspectives Within the Kierkegaardian Biography”
Kierkegaard Revisited
, trans. Stacey Elizabeth Axe; eds. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn and Jon Stewart (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997), 75 (X 1 A 442).

108
: “put everything into”: S. Kierkegaard, Garff, 314.

108
: Stand writing: Schiødte, quoting Anders,
Encounters
, 195.

108
: “I regard the whole city”: JP 5763 (VI B 225 n.d., 1844–45).

108
: “although I can be totally engrossed”: JP 5731 (V B 72:22 n.d., 1844).

109
: “He preferred”: Schiødte,
Encounters
, 194.

109
: “strike up conversations”: Brøchner,
Encounters
, 229–30.

109
: Coffee cups: Levin,
Encounters
, 208.

110
: “He comforted”: Brøchner,
Encounters
, 242.

110
: “He is so unspeakably loving”: H. P. Kierkegaard to Meidell,
Encounters
, 140.

112
: “strong attacks”: Spang, Garff, 460.

112
: “impractical and very self-absorbed”: H. Plough, recounting his father's memories,
Encounters
, 56.

112
: “my little secretary”: JP 5688 (IV A 141 n.d., 1843).

112
: “I wager”: JP 5688 (IV A 141 n.d., 1843).

115
: “healthy, happy”: JP 5665 (Letters, no. 82 May 25, 1843).

117
: “a little hint”: JP 6388 (X1 A 266 n.d., 1849).

117
: “in order to clear her out”: JP 6388 (X1 A 266 n.d., 1849).

118
: “At vespers . . . she has faith in me”: JP 5653 (IV A 97 n.d., 1843).

118
: “Her eyes met mine”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

118
: “After her engagement”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

118
: “No doubt”: JP 6472 (X5 A 149 n.d., 1849).

118–19
: “If I had had faith”: JP 5664 (IV A 107 May 17, 1843).

119
: “But so my girl”: JP 5664 (IV A 107 May 17, 1843).

119
: “I have loved her . . . me to do it”: JP 5664 (IV A 107 May 17, 1843).

120
: “But if I were to have explained myself”: JP 5664 (IV A 107 May 17, 1843).

120
: “It is my own design”: JP 6472 (X.5 A 149).

122
: “The Grundtvigian nonsense”: JP 4121 (VIII1 A 245 n.d., 1847).

123
: “in a legal and literary sense . . . not mine”: CUP, 529.

Chapter 7: Pirate Life

127
: “looming up”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 69.

127
: “manned by courageous young men”:
Corsaren
, no. 1, cols 5–6 in
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 4: Journals NB-NB5
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), note 7, 445.

127
: “six times four days”: COR, xi.

128
: “read to pieces”: Andersen, Garff, 379.

128
: “With feelings”: Møller to Goldschmidt, Garff, 385.

128
: “You are not a riding instructor”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 68.

128
: “comic composition”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 67.

129
: “Which of your book's characters . . .
The Corsair
is P. L. Møller”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 71.

130
: “a bright fellow”: JP 588 (VII.1 A 99).

130
: “It was my desire”: JP 588 (VII.1 A 99).

130
: “irreparable harm”: TA, 74.

130
: “disgusting”: Heiberg, Garff, 218.

131
: “No, thank you”: JP 5944 (VII.1 A 158).

131
: Newspaper reviews: JP 2143 (VII.1 A 24).

131
: “will never die”: COR, ix.

131
: “To become immortal”: COR, xiv (VI B 192).

133
: “But to spin”: Møller “A Visit in Sorø”, COR, 102.

133
: “He satiates himself”: Møller “A Visit in Sorø”, COR, 100.

134
: “Would that I”: COR, 46.

135
: “Where the Spirit is”: COR, 46.

135
: “Kierkegaard pounced”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 73.

135
: “Denmark's greatest mind”:
The Corsair
, no. 276, January 2, 1846, COR, 110.

136
: “in order”:
The Corsair
, no. 27, January 9, 1846, COR, 114.

136
: “May I ask”: COR, 50.

137
: “walked past me”: Goldschmidt,
Encounters
, 75.

138
: “He [Søren] could reflect”: Brøchner,
Encounters
, 235.

138
: “Accustomed as we are now”: Goldschmidt, COR, xxxi.

138
: “In our time”: Troels-Lund,
Encounters
, 181–82.

139
: “Every kitchen boy”: JP 5887 (VII.1 A 98).

139–140
: “Once”: Troels-Lund,
Encounters
, 183–84.

140
: “Don't be such a Søren Kierkegaard”: Brandes,
Encounters
, 97.

140
: “And so I am wasted”: COR, 229 (IX A 370).

141
: “What I as a public person”: JP 6906 (XI.1 A 484).

142
: “I am positive”: JP 5863 (VII.1 B 69).

143
: “But, no”: JP 5872 (VII.1 A 3).

143
: “When I gave her up”: JP 5961 (VII.1 A 221).

143–44
: “Humanly speaking”: JP 5961 (VII.1 A 221).

Chapter 8: An Armed and Neutral Life

145
: Bishop forgot: Hannay, 390;
Papers and Journals
, 642 (XI2 A 219, 29 June 1855).

145
: “It is frequently said”: JP 6373 (X.1 A 187).

146
: “What Christendom needs”: JP 2642 (IX A 165 n.d., 1848).

146
: “the truth”: Hannay, 369 quoting IX A 302.

146
: “The judgment”: JP 2642 (IX A 165 n.d., 1848).

146–47
: “Report”: JP 5887 (VII1 A 98 March 9, 1846).

147
: “this existence”: JP 5887 (VII1 A 98 March 9, 1846).

147
: “If I only could”: JP 5887 (VII1 A 98 March 9, 1846).

147–48
: “When Bishop Mynster”: JP 5947 (VII 1 A 169 November 5, 1846).

149
: See JP 5937 (VII1 A 147 September 7, 1846).

150
: “And now that I”: JP 5894 (VII1 A 107 n.d., 1846).

151
: John the Baptist: Brøchner,
Encounters
, 234.

152
: “it is cruel”: JP 6049 (VIII 1 A 264 n.d.,1847).

153
: “An upbuilding discourse”: JP 640 (VIII1 A 293 n.d., 1847).

153
: Reprinted: Historical introduction, WL
,
xv.

153
: “I firmly decided”: JP 6310 (X1 A 42 n.d. 1849).

153
: King and Queen: JP 6310 (X1 A 42 n.d. 1849).

153
: Intended Reader: WL, xvi.

154
: “. . . it would have made me”: JP 6071 (VIII1 A 390 November 4, 1847).

154
: “Today I looked in”: JP 6071 (VIII1 A 390 November 4, 1847).

155
: “Then came the year 1848”: PC, xi quoting X6 B 249.

155
: “the People”: Bruce Kirmmse,
Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 66.

156
: “not to force the nation”: Roar Skovmand.
De folkelig bevaegelser i Danmark
(Copenhagen: Shultz, 1951), 24; Kirmmse
Golden Age
, 66.

157
: “They are blind”: JP 2960 (X4 A 93 n.d., 1851).

157
: “The single individual”: JP 2004 (VIII1 A 482 n.d., 1847).

157
: “Armed Neutrality”: PV, 138–39.

158
: “attack upon Christendom”:
Papers and Journals,
395 (X1 A 533, 1849).

158
: “An Attempt”: JP 6271 N.B. (IX A 390 n.d., 1848).

159
: “I would place myself”: JP 6433 (X1 A 517 n.d., 1849).

159
: “I was so happy”: JP 6247 (IX A 262 n.d., 1848).

159
: “I safely dare”: JP 6247 (IX A 262 n.d., 1848).

159
: “I do not wish”: JP 6247 (IX A 262 n.d., 1848).

159
: “We all weep”: JP 6536 (X2 A 205 n.d., 1849).

160
: “. . . Marry I could not”: JP 6537 (Letters, no. 239).

160
: “The enclosed letter”: JP 6537 (Letters, no. 239).

160
: “I then received”: JP 6537 (Letters, no. 239).

161
: “Now the matter”: JP 6538 (X.2 A 210).

161
: Peter protested: JP 6559 (X6 B 131 n.d., 1849).

161–62
: “I myself have”: JP 6560 (Letters, no. 240 December, 1849).

162
: “All existence is disintegrating”: JP 6448 (X1 A 553 n.d., 1849). 162: “Strangely enough”: JP 6449 (X1 A 556 n.d., 1849).

162–63
: “Without a doubt . . . the work is itself a judgment”: JP 6501 (X2 A 66 n.d., 1849).

163
: “To me it became clear”: M
,
70 (
Fatherland
112, May 16, 1855).

164
: “So I was obliged”: JP 6800 (X.4 A 540).

165
: “habitual Christianity”: COR, 52.

165–66
: “There is nothing”: COR, 54.

166
: “I have worked”: COR, 56.

166
: Regine looks around: JP 6800 (X.4 A 540).

166
: “The Possible Collision”: JP 6795 (X4 A 511 n.d., 1852).

168
: “So let us now”: Hans Lassen Martensen,
Leilighedstaler. (Prædiken holdt i Christiansborg Slotskirke, paa 5te Søndag efter Hellig-Tre Konger, Søndagen før Biskop Dr. Mynster's Jordefærd).
[Special Occasion Talks. (Sermon held in Christiansborg palace chapel . . . the Sunday before Bishop Dr. Mynster's funeral)] (Kjøbenhavn, 1884), 20.

Chapter 9: A Life Concluded

169
: “I have so little desire . . . leaving the room”: Troels-Lund,
Encounters
, 184–86.

171
: “Now he is dead”: JP 6853 (XI.1 A 1 March 1, 1854).

171–72
: “A modern clergyman”: JP 6860 (A 69 n.d., 1854).

172–73
: “The matter is quite simple”: JP 2872 (X3 A 34 n.d., 1850).

173
: “Christianity in repose”: JP 2731 (XI1 A 345 n.d., 1854).

174
: “an unusual kind of poet”: See the preface to
Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
.

174
: “All modern Christendom”: JP VI 6466 (X1 A 617).

174
: “Corrective”: Hannay, 406.

174
: “After all”: JP 6840 (X5 A 105 March 28, 1853).

175
: “you can be sure”: JP 6862 (XI1 A 72 n.d., 1854).