Saturday, January 12, 2008

side effects


The Stendhal Syndrome is a psychosomatic illness causing dizziness, confusion, rapid heartbeat, and even hallucinations provoked by an individual's exposure to art, usually when the piece is especially beautiful or there is a lot of it in one place. I tried to find a painting of Stendhal that might potentially induce the syndrome, but apparently he was kind of homely.

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