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Article: Late conversion: was Rimbaud a saint?(Short Take)(Biography)
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- May 9, 2008
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When Arthur Rimbaud reached Marseilles in August 1891, he had only three months to live. He had come from Roche, in the Ardennes, changing trains in Paris on a rainy Sunday evening, his sister Isabelle by his side. He was on his agonizing return to the Hopital de la Conception, where his cancerous right leg had been amputated in May, and where, he told his sister, "at least it will be sunny and warm." Only he kept on believing that somehow he could be cured of his cancer and return to Yemen and his trading post in Ethiopia. The poet in him had died years before, but his life as a trader of rifles, ivory, incense, and gold lived on in his imagination.
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