Sunday, June 8, 2014

Van Gogh and Bookstores



Linda Piehl Woodard said this: But I have to admit that I had to double-check to see if he in fact did say this, and he did in a letter to his brother in 1877, but it was almost like an aside: (So often, in the past as well, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me up and reminded me that there are good things in the world.) And reading the letter was AMAZING...a lost art, indeed. Here is it in full, well the translation of it if anyone is interested, with the quote after 64: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let133/letter.html

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