Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What's so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, is a man wil

Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What s so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, is a man wil

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