Likewise today. She has brought clean tea towels, cutlery, a bag of soda and cream puffs. “They can keep that, because they don’t have much here. The soda is for the dirty pans. Do you have any cups, Harrison? Then I make coffee. And would you like a cream puff?” Marja gave him a book about Vincent van Gogh and Maurits Cornelis Escher. “The story of Vincent van Gogh particularly appeals to me. He also had a difficult life full of depression, but art always played the leading role.”