The Sole Worthwhile Things to Come From my Reading

[reborn_ronin]

"At the heart of darkness, astonishingly, lies a doodle."
-Kirk Varnedoe, "Primitivism" p. 204

I really hate Gaughin. Moreso and more articulately now that I've read 45 pages about him.

Comments

[zombyshakespear]

Hey, he married a 13 year old tahitian girl. Get off his back! Best feature of that: if he slicked her hair back, he could make her look like a 13 year old tahitian boy.
Hehe...I'm priceless.

[just shakes head]

[reborn_ronin]

Awful. Simply awful.

Gaughin was a total fraud. And a pedophile. Not like a white man screwing the Western Hemisphere for personal gain was something new...

Maybe I just hate people who try to pass their crap off as something special just 'cause they removed themselves from society to do it. I remember hating Whitman and Thoreau too, so it might be that.

Re: [just shakes head]

[zombyshakespear]

damn right.
I hated Thoreau too. We had a section of Walden assigned for a class once upon a time. I've not read anything that boring since.