Sunday, June 01, 2025

Special post--Courtauld Museum --Gauguin's semi-memoir--Avant et Apres--Before and After.

There's a French-English translation--but unfortunately it's formatted too small for my laptop screen and my eyes--but it's very poetic.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/the-collection/prints-and-drawings/discover-avant-et-apres/
There are lots of youtubes of van Gogh--
And a new article on Gauguin in The Atlantic
And a new book on Gauguin-
But I don't like guided tours and I don't like biographies and I don't like being told what to look for and how to look--but I do wish my screen was large enough so I could read the English version of Avant and Apres--I think the Courtauld is playing a trick on us.
I thinkI will just write my own novels--I'm too poor to make my own movies.

Height and dating--I think it's over-valued--like big breasts and thick lips in women.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/18/the-shorter-mans-search-for-love-one-woman-cried-when-i-told-her-how-tall-i-am?utm_sour...