the mona lisa was made more interesting for me through the story of its kidnap by duchamp et al. it goes that they were in with an expert in period forgery, who was able to make an exact duplicate of the original, matching colors and paint and, of course, fade. then they put the moustache and l.h.o.o.q. (she has a hot ass) on one and returned the other. what makes it interesting is that the story goes that they didnt know which painting was which.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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