Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
By the time the art experts reached street-level, sixteen stories
below, there was little left to be seen. The molecular camera was a
mere tangle of wires and metal, yet it still hummed erratically on
for a time, and before the astonished eyes of the gathering crowd, it
belched out its final and greatest creation--a magnificent melange of
all periods and styles, a triumphant distillation of man's artistic
genius through the ages, marred only by the unfortunate representation,
in one corner, of a human nose in juxtaposition with the thumb of an
upraised hand whose fingers were indelicately spread. However, this
minor annoyance was blocked out, and the masterpiece was exhibited in
the leading galleries of the civilized world, until, like the machine's
other productions, it crumbled and fell into dust.
THE END
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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