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梵高 Part 04

And you don't get much lower than shacking up with a broken-down prostitute, habitually drunk, bad case of quinsy, single mother, sickly kids, another one on the way.

Clasina Hoornik, Sien to Vincent who took her in, would be his unlikely muse.

Sien's history of misery marked on her body.

The drooping breasts and stringy hair became the food of Vincent's inspiration.

There's no such thing as an old woman, he wrote to Theo.

And in the lovingly described lines of a used body, you can see what he meant.

My dear Theo. I'm longing to see what an impression Sien makes on you.

She's. . . There's nothing special about her. She's just an ordinary woman of the people, who holds something of the sublime for me.

Not surprisingly, this didn't go down brilliantly with the vicar father.

Theo, no prude, didn't much care for it, either, but it didn't stop him steadfastly supporting his brother's latest career.

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