[MR] FW: Term Usage

[jbrmm266 at aol.com]

 Molly wrote:




And while creepy, the tale of Ulrich von Lichtenstein is also a good one (he cut 
off his own ear to keep from offending his lady...now THAT's 
commitment...creepy, but committed).




 Forgive me, Lady, but you're getting von Lichtenstein mixed up with Van Gogh.? 

It was Van Gogh who cut off his earlobe (not his whole ear as sometimes asserted, a myth perpetrated by a friend of his) and sent it to a lady with whom he was obsessed.

In "The Service of Ladies," von Lichtenstein cut off a *finger* and sent it to his lady love.? But if you read the whole thing you realize it wasn't quite as great a sacrifice as all that, since the finger had been injured in a joust and was mostly useless at that point.

Another surgery he had was to correct his hare-lip, which his lady found offensive.? He claimed to have had it done without drinking himself silly (the only sort of anasthetic they had then, though they might've had opium), and that he sat in a chair while the surgeon cut and sewed.? I agree that that is commitment.

Your servant aye
Donal 


 


 

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