Maria Puente Van Gogh article

Thank you Maria Puente of USA TODAY for a fine article on

    the " tortured artist ", Vincent Van Gogh . As the popular song

    bemoaned: this cruel world was not made for someone as beautiful

    as you, Vincent.

         Will the Van Gogh exhibit in Washington ,D.C. help us to transcend

    the " unedifying spectacle of a presidential sex scandal "  ?

         Your front page picture of a Van Gogh masterpiece is a little

    ironic in its suggestiveness : " The Bedroom " .

           We might find it easier to " forgive " President Clinton if

    we contemplate his thoughts on love and sex in a letter to his

    brother Theo : " I can live without love. But I can not live

    without sex.. Sex lubricates !  " .

           Like Bill Clinton, Vincent Van Gogh had an intense " Lust

    for Life ". That is often the driving force of true genius !

        We just cannot escape " The Bedroom ".