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By Hervé Guibert (1955–91), from Crazy for Vincent, which was published in April by Semiotext(e). Guibert was a photographer, filmmaker, and the author of more than twenty-five books. Translated from the French by Christine Pichini.

In the middle of the night between the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He had drunk a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine. Finding him unconscious, his friends called the fire squad. Vincent suddenly recovered, walked to his car, took off. The firemen chased after him, rushed into his building, went up…

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