Posted by Jost on September 2, 2006, at 20:51:43
In reply to Re: Second Job Interview » Poet, posted by Racer on September 2, 2006, at 16:54:22
Can you imagine Van Gogh on a job interview?
Interviewer: "Uh, Sir, could you explain the seeming absence of part of one of your ears? It was not in any way the cause of your losing your last job, I hope?"
VG: I haven't had time for a job; for the past years I've devoted myself singlemindedly to the pursuit of my art, to the love of all that is spiritual, and to the passionate attempt to learn how to draw. Also paint. I have also spent some time in a fine institution on the other side of town. I was forced to cut off part of my ear due to the pain I experienced upn being abandoned by my master and co-worker, a fellow seeker named Paul Gaugin, who.....
I: I see!?
VG: Yes! That ingrate, whom I loved as a brother and compatriot, sojourned here to the countryside to be my collaborator in the development of a new....
I: Har-umph! Sir! Sir!.."
.VG: .."a new and remarkable school of painting and the...
I: My Good Sir! Thank you for your time, Sir..... Guards.....!!!"
VG: But!... I must explain!: my love for Gaugin and his terrible abandonment....
I: (loudly) Next?"
Jost
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