with friends like that, you don’t need enemies
remember in art appreciation class in 5th grade or so when you learned about the crazy but talented artist vincent van gogh? remember being fascinated about how he was so depressed he cut off his ear and walked the lopped-off ear down the street to a brothel and gave it to a hooker as kind of a present? well, a new book called “the pact of silence” says that the story is untrue and that the story was concocted to protect van gogh’s good friend, artist paul gaugin, the true perpetrator. according to the book, “on the evening of december 23, 1888 van gogh, seized by an attack of a metabolic disease, became very aggressive when gauguin said he was leaving him for good. the men had a heated argument near the brothel and vincent might have attacked his friend. gauguin, wanting to defend himself and wanting to get rid of ‘the madman’ drew his weapon and made a move towards van gogh and by that he cut off his left ear.”
ok, but if van gogh was gay, what was he doing hanging out near a brothel?
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