Some forgeries are worth the ultimate price

Ellen 2022-10-08 23:25:50

The author has given the protagonist a very ingenious identity, the auctioneer.
An auction is the sale or purchase of a specific item or property right to the highest bidder by means of an open auction. The philosophical significance may be understood as a game that is not based on the price/performance ratio, but only between the bidder and the lot. At the auction, nothing is surprising, or rare treasures are ignored, or the seemingly ordinary manuscripts of a certain painter have incurred high prices. The sense of achievement lies in discerning the slightest difference between the real and the fake.
Such a special transaction method very directly paved the way for the whole story at the beginning.
The protagonist is a veteran who is skilled in the auction field, but his skills in the love field are inexperienced.

In this game, there is no value or not in the eyes of others.
It may have already surpassed true and false.

some forgeries are worth the ultimate price.

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  • Claire: In an old article of yours I found on the internet, you said: There's something authentic in every forgery. What did you mean?

    Virgil Oldman: When simulating another's work the forger can't resist the temptation to put in something of himself. Often it's just a trifle, a detail of no interest. One unsuspected stroke, by which the forger inevitably ends up betraying himself, and revealing his own utterly authentic sensibilities.

  • Claire: I'm not in the habit of speaking to people very much.

    Virgil Oldman: Believe me, that's considerable stroke of good fortune. Talking to people is extremely perilous. However, it was you who made the call, so you're running the risk.