psych wrote:
no one who met van gogh praised his work, and look at the legacy he left behind. if he had not quit & topped himself so soon, he would have continued to develop and left his appreciators in the future a lot more paintings.
And as to writing, one of my favorite books is
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's the only book I think I've read that's made me laugh out loud before the second page. He committed suicide at 31 because he could not get it published. His mother kept the manuscript, which was written out in longhand on legal tablets. She took it to Walker Percy, who was a writer in residence at a Southern University. He liked it so much he pushed to get it published and it won a Pulitzer prize. I'm sorry he's no longer around to write more. Actually a short novel he wrote when he was 16 was published later,
The Neon Bible.
