I hope I have just had simply an artist's freak, and then a lot of fever after very considerable loss of blood, as an artery was severed, but my appetite came back at once. My digestion is all right, and so from day to day serenity returns to my brain.

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Vincent wrote this letter about two weeks after his first attack, during which he had cut off his ear

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