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I was looking through a book of Van Gogh’s paintings in my college library and someone had gone through every painting marking them as “OK” or “vals,” taping their own photos or—horror of horrors!—cutting out the book’s reproductions, scribbling marginal comments in Dutch, English, and French—or simply “hee hee!” or “hou hou!”—and underlining sentences.



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