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The rumours and realities of his unregenerate life style, like his contempt for his homeland, became amusing... and even pleasingly authentic to the vulgar mind, with its propensity for confusing serious creation with colourful biography, for allowing Van Gogh's ear obscure any attempt to regard art as a supreme sanity instead of a chocolate-sucking melodrama. (J. Fowles, Пер. К. Чугунова) |