At the end the witch appears again, and on being asked what is really the truth, answers: "The truth, my children, is that we are, all of us, acting in a marionette comedy. What is important more than anything else in a marionette comedy, is keeping the ideas of the author clear. This is the real happiness of life, and now that I have at last come into a marionette play, I will never go out of it again. But you, my fellow actors, keep the ideas of the author clear. Aye, drive them to their utmost consequences." 1

from "The Roads Round Pisa"
Seven Gothic Tales
Karen Blixen dressed in the Pierrot costume. Photo by Rie Nissen, 1954. Royal Library of Copenhagen.

This passage -- which may be found in the centre of the middle story of Seven Gothic Tales as one might find a gem in a series of nesting boxes -- originated in a marionette comedy entitled The Revenge of Truth, which young Karen Dinesen wrote at the age of eighteen.  It well captures the Weltanschauung by which Karen Blixen lived.

Photo credit:  Isak Dinesen:  Karen Blixen at the age of 69, dressed in the Pierrot costume. Photo by Rie Nissen, 1954. Royal Library of Copenhagen. Reprinted from Thorkild Bjørnvig, The Pact:  My Friendship with Isak Dinesen.   1974.