Letters
A telephone conversation with my mother this morning:Jin: …so when I get home one of my projects is figuring out a filing system for all the letters I've received, because there are too many for my old...
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I watched Vincent & Theo last night. Didn't enjoy it very much. Originally I was going to complain about the film's treatment of women. In particular I object to Johanna, Theo's wife (Theo is...
View ArticleDisasters in Cookery
This afternoon I spent two hours making rice pudding, my mother's two-hour-long sweet, creamy, cinnamon-y rice pudding, the recipe that required three separate trips to the store before I gathered all...
View ArticleIn Which My Subconscious Kicks My Ass
So this story, this Van Gogh story which was supposed to flow from my brain through my keyboard like water and then leave me alone, is being Difficult. I knew I shouldn't have researched the damn...
View ArticleLust for Life
1. My spinach plant has not yet sprouted. It isn't supposed to have sprouted yet, so all this means is that it isn't The Mutant Spinach Plant that Will Eat My Dorm Room. However, I am already fretting...
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Van Gogh/Gauguin
Title: 20 December 1888Author: osprey_archerBeta: visualthinker11Fandoms: um. 19th century artist slash? That should totally be a fandom. Gauguin alone could be slashed with the every fin de siècle...
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Watched Lust for Life yesterday. I expected something in the way of a hagiography - Lust for Life is, after all, from the fifties - which forgives all of Vincent's faults and plays up the NO ONE...
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Rank speculation
Via troublems03: Van Gogh's ear 'was cut off by friend Gauguin with a sword'. A pair of German academics recently published a book postulating that Van Gogh did not cut off his own earlobe, but that...
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