[UA] Avatar: The Mentally Ill Mathematician?

[Daniel Butler]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Avatar: The Mentally Ill Mathematician?


> > The archetype is most evident not only in your broken down
> >mathematicians but in the tortured and angsty post-modern artists trying
to
> >be the next Van Gogh
>
> Incidentally, I'm trying to remember where I heard the idea that Van Gogh
> DIDN'T cut off his own ear -- that he had a big drunken argument with
> Gauguin and that Gauguin (who was maybe a fencer?  Maybe known for his ill
> temper?) chopped it off, then freaked out when he saw his buddy bleeding
> and unconscious.  While Van Gogh was out of it, Gauguin told the medicos
> that it was self-inflicted.  When Van Gogh woke up from his fugue and
asked
> "Dude, what happened to my EAR?!?" (or the French equivalent),that's the
> story he was told.

"L'ami, ce qui est arrivé à mon OREILLE?!"