Comments on: Van Ghosts https://www.thesmartset.com/van-ghosts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=van-ghosts A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Melinda Lewis https://www.thesmartset.com/van-ghosts/#comment-20888 Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:25:10 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57964#comment-20888 In reply to ken wightman.

Noted and changed! Thank you!

]]> By: ken wightman https://www.thesmartset.com/van-ghosts/#comment-20885 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:18:28 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57964#comment-20885 Good article. Note it’s spelled Gauguin, not Gaugin.

]]> By: Harvey Blume https://www.thesmartset.com/van-ghosts/#comment-20868 Sat, 02 Jul 2022 03:50:07 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57964#comment-20868 first off van gogh being bipolar is old hat. he was pretty clearly epileptic. he knew himself as such and read Dostoevsky for verification.

but we fear something as elemental and fundamental as epilepsy. we retreat from neurology but van gogh and Dostoevsky and others were part of the first phase of the neurological novel. we’re in the second, what with oliver sacks’s work and the near flood of autism-centered literature.

btw i doubt i can ever reread the brothers k — all that spiritual windbaggery — but love and recommend the idiot, epilepsy seen from within.

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