《Outpost Greatest Painting Of All Time 》作者： - Mike Resnick 【EPUB】

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The Greatest Painting of All Time* * * * * What you have to understand (said Little Mike) is that not every work of art is an original. I've made more money copying the masters for private collectors, or for museums that didn't want the public to know that the originals were stolen or decayed, than I've ever made for my own creative work, brilliant as it clearly is. You know, it's really quite strange when you come to think of it. I've made millions of credits from my copies of The Three Graces and The Persistence of Memory and a trio of _Saturday Evening Post_ covers, but with the one exception that I'm going to tell you about the most I've ever gotten for anything I signed my name to was the 5,000 credits that Tomahawk paid me for the painting of Sally Six Eyes that's hanging over the bar. (In retrospect, I should have charged him a thousand credits per eye.) That's always been a dilemma for the supremely talented: the world - -or, in my case, the galaxy --just isn't ready for us. We're ahead of our time. Look at poor Van