Tim Carvell’s History’s Notable Persons Reconsidered

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Tim Carvell is the head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He wrote this column long before that, though.

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Vincent Van Gogh.

BY Tim Carvell

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I find it remarkable that in all the accounts of Vincent Van Gogh’s cutting off of his ear and sending it to his brother nobody has yet suggested that it might have been the result of a domestic accident.

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Tim Carvell’s History’s Notable Persons Reconsidered

Vincent Van Gogh.

BY Tim Carvell

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