Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: anthropophagi Ina letter from Saint- -Rermy Van Gogh jested that the citizens of Arles were cannibals or 'Anthropophagi. Vincent's ironic use of this term sprang from the that the Midi, where he lived in 1888 1889 was least ta northerm painter- tropical Colonialists of his day espoused classical homeopathic logic wherein warm climates southern longitudes and human ferocity beget one another. Van Gogh, like other educa ted artists his day i,e. Gauguin) frequently associated the violent and back ward tendencies southern Europeans with equa torial peoples. In the months following his ear-slicing incident, Gogh began to feel that his neighbors Place Lamartine were betraying their inner savagery Remy spranp fact limates assaci ated peaples betraving