Imagine that you are in an art gallery in Italy. The walls and stone floors are white, and warm sunlight is filtering through large windows. You are standing before a massive work of art, a metal sculpture in the shape of a book, almost 6ft high. There are no ropes stopping you from moving closer. There's nobody there - no noisy schoolchildren, no chattering tourists, no attendants eyeballing you from the stairwell. You step closer, so close that you can practically smell the metal. It's just you and an eye-wateringly expensive sculpture, having a face-off in a vast and empty room. This is the...
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