![]() ![]() ![]() Nathanael returns to university and meets the daughter of one of his professors, a beautiful but strange girl named Olimpia. While he sometimes appears to have forgotten about Coppelius and Coppola, he has periods where it is all he will think or talk about, even coming close to a duel with Lothar after he attacks Clara for calling his story insane. Upon telling Clara and Lothar of this, they attempt to convince him that it is a childish delusion, and continue to hope he will come to his senses while at home. Nathanael has come upon a man, Coppola, at university, whom he believes to actually be that same evil man from his childhood. This man once attacked Nathanael, threatening to take his eyes, and later killed his father before disappearing. Nathanael describes a childhood fear of a creature called The Sandman who was said to come at night and steal the eyes of children, which intermingled with a the appearance of a man named Coppelius in his father's room some nights to work on what appears to have been alchemy. The story begins with a series of letters between Nathanael, his fiancée Clara, and her brother Lothar. ![]()
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