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Some people believe that the painter Van Gogh was at one point prescribed Digitalis, more commonly known as Foxglove, for the treatment of his epilepsy and that his famously striking 'Yellow/Halo Period' came about as a result of the side-effects experienced whilst taking it.
Intrigued, I ventured into the garden, ate some Foxglove leaves until I became...
Blooming mad, daft as a daffodil Doh!!
Loopy as a loopy lupin loopily looping.
Foxed by gloves, cross-crissing chrysanthemums,
lazy crazy daisies and pine trees pining for *sun.
Flowers weary of thyme who?
Count, test the steps of the wall.
Flour in big own ears bin owing hear.
Flowering Begonias been going here,
there and everywhere where they wear their hair
where every hare is there hair to wear.
Water!! Sun!! That's all I wish for.
What are some? Hat stall, Irish four.
I will flourish, flourish I will,
I will oh I will, I willow I will.
In the meantime it's goodbye garden, halo hospital.
The doctors assure me that with some tender love and care I should be out by spring.
*In a round about way is from the William Blake poem "Ah! Sun-flower" the first two lines of which read,
"Ah, sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;"
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Critically accurate and fun.
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Thoroughly enjoyable read. I think I have some nutmeg around here somewhere. Happy hour!
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(03-06-2015, 11:06 PM)ambrosial revelation Wrote: Some people believe that the painter Van Gogh was at one point prescribed Digitalis, more commonly known as Foxglove, for the treatment of his epilepsy and that his famously striking 'Yellow/Halo Period' came about as a result of the side-effects experienced whilst taking it.
Intrigued, I ventured into the garden, ate some Foxglove leaves until I became...
Blooming mad, daft as a daffodil Doh!!
Loopy as a loopy lupin loopily looping.
Foxed by gloves, cross-crissing chrysanthemums,
lazy crazy daisies and pine trees pining for sun.
Flowers weary of thyme who?
Count, test the steps of the wall.
Flour in big own ears bin owing hear.
Flowering Begonias been going here,
there and everywhere where they wear their hair
where every hare is there hair to wear.
Water!! Sun!! That's all I wish for.
What are some? Hat stall, Irish four.
I will flourish, flourish I will,
I will oh I will, I willow I will.
In the meantime it's goodbye garden, halo hospital.
The doctors assure me that with some tender love and care I should be out by spring. Funny. Enjoyed it.
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(03-07-2015, 12:07 AM)Erthona Wrote: Critically accurate and fun.
Dale
Dale,
Thanks for reading. Wikipedia has a whole page about Van Gogh's health conditions and what effect they may have had on his painting ranging from chronic sun stroke to lead poisoning due to his habit of nibbling his paints.
Thanks again for reading,
Mark
(03-07-2015, 01:40 AM)Tiger the Lion Wrote: Thoroughly enjoyable read. I think I have some nutmeg around here somewhere. Happy hour!
Paul
Thanks Paul,
Careful with those spices though, it always starts off innocently with the likes of nutmeg but before you know it you'll be mad about saffron and not know whether you cumin or going.
Thanks for reading,
Mark
(03-07-2015, 03:11 AM)Grace Wrote: Funny. Enjoyed it.
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Thanks for reading Grace, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Much appreciated,
Mark
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Meant to comment a while back, but my brain is fried despite the fact I don't snort turpentine like shem.
I LOVE this piece, and oddly enough the halo period was my favorite.
When I saw the title though, I thought of Digitalis used for heart conditions...stupid nurse brain, I suppose--but I still wonder if you could work some kind of heart symbol in there.
Doesn't matter, it's great anyway!
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(03-09-2015, 10:30 PM)bena Wrote: Meant to comment a while back, but my brain is fried despite the fact I don't snort turpentine like shem.
I LOVE this piece, and oddly enough the halo period was my favorite.
When I saw the title though, I thought of Digitalis used for heart conditions...stupid nurse brain, I suppose--but I still wonder if you could work some kind of heart symbol in there.
Doesn't matter, it's great anyway!
I was quite worried about posting this even though it was in 'Fun', I suppose I thought it might be seen as a a bit too gimmicky. So I'm pleasantly surprised by the response to it. Actually regarding the title, I don't know what happened when I was naming it because it should be something like "Living In The Digitalis Age" or Era, it was meant to be a play on Digital, oh well, that's what I get for using my garden as a pharmacy.
I knew it had been used for heart conditions but I thought it was years ago and they didn't use it anymore but I've just discovered that it's relatively new in that respect. I don't think they really knew what they were doing using it for epilepsy though, much in the same way that someone once noticed that about 5 epileptic people weren't schizophrenic and so ECT was born. Ta Da!!
I totally agree with you about Van Gogh's halo period being his best, when I think about Van Gogh I immediately associate him with errmm Don McLean (and that bloody miserable song), but then when I get that out of my head it's paintings like starry night.
I've had a look at working some kind of 'Heart' in there. All the plants with heart in the name aren't really universally known so it wouldn't work that way, but fear not I'm working on another way to introduce it via forget-me-nots, artichokes and possibly a freesia. It's probably best not to build your hopes up from the way it's looking.
Thanks for reading and the wonderful comment,
Mark
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Love it - Starry Night is a favourite of mine, and I'd read about the 'halo' effect he saw. Great to see it come together here!
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(03-10-2015, 05:31 AM)just mercedes Wrote: Love it - Starry Night is a favourite of mine, and I'd read about the 'halo' effect he saw. Great to see it come together here!
Thank you - and yes you can't go far wrong with Starry Night it is quintessential Van Gogh, far better than them sunflowers any day. I found out about the halo effect by accident but it is fascinating indeed. Also I mentioned it somewhere else in this post about the wikipedia page all about Van Gogh's health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van...27s_health it is also very interesting although after reading it I can't help thinking that he didn't really have the best of luck.
Thanks for reading,
Mark
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Perhaps not the best of luck, but still----
he was brilliant during the halo phase. sunflower bleck, as well as most of his still life.
But still, there was so much brilliance (even in some of said still life) -----Olive trees is long before starry night, and yet, the clouds were all halo-y.
yeah yeah on n on.
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