 Anders Ringblom, writing in the cultural newspaper "Tidskrift", calls the epistle an unvarnished picture of the old watchmaker as the rising sun warms him up, the tavern opens, and life once again becomes worth living.City walks in Stockholm's Gamla stan take tourists to visit the Krogen Kryp-in on Järntorget, the Crawl-in Tavern, alluded to in "one of the best known of Fredmans Epistles, No.23."