The writer August Strindberg (1849–1912) gave a similar opinion, writing that the couple becomes "a fusion of two beings, of which the smaller, in the form of a carp, seems ready to devour the larger".
August Strindberg (1849–1912) äußerte sich ähnlich, in dem er die Verschmelzung als “a fusion of two beings, of which the smaller, in the form of a carp, seems ready to devour the larger” bezeichnete.