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2026-06-21 08:31 UTC
«Writing to his brother Theo from Arles in [1888], Van Gogh ... committed himself to conjuring "a sense of the infinite".»
It seems to me now that we can think of Van Gogh as a spiritual cousin of the narrator of Pirsig's _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_.
In a way.
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BBC article:
Café Terrace at Night: Five details that unlock the genius of Van Gogh's original 'starry night'
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-21 13:50
@vnikolov@ieji.de In what way?