Vincent van Gogh The Bedroom at Arles paintingVincent van Gogh Thatched Cottages at Cordeville paintingVincent van Gogh Still life with roses and sunflowers painting
immersed in her long-unopened copy of her younger self, disrespectful of books, had made a number of marks: underlinings, ticks in the margins, exclamations, multiple queries. Seeing that she had awoken, he read out a selection of these passages with a wicked grin. "From the Proverbs of Hell," he began. "_The lust of the goat is the bounty of God_." She blushed furiously. "And what is more," he continued, "_The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell_. Then, lower down the page: _This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment_. Tell me, who is this? I found her pressed in the pages." He handed her a dead woman's photograph: her sister, Elena, buried here and forgotten. Another addict of visions; and a casualty of the habit. "We don't talk about her much." She was kneeling unclothed on the bed, her pale hair hiding her face. "Put her back where you found her."
_I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing_. He riffled on through the book, and
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