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May 12, 2006
gauguin on van gogh
One of the miners, a terribly mutilated man, his face burned, was taken in by Vincent. "And yet he's done for," said the company doctor, "unless a miracle happens or he receives the most intensive motherly care. No, it's folly to look after him."
Vincent believed in miracles, in motherliness.
The madman watched for frothy days at the dying man’s bedside; he vigilantly prevented air from reaching the man's wounds and paid for medicines. A person bringing consolation, he talked. His mad enterprise made a dead man, a Christian, live again.
Paul Gauguin
Posted by amin at May 12, 2006 4:14 PM