What I'm saying is that it is possible to build an exact replica because it has already been done on a large scale for books, painting, scores, sculpture and musical instruments. Hey, the Capirola Lutebook could be a forgery. It is a good candidate. Some of the forgers were true geniuses.
I'm not sayng we should do that--although I prefer copies, myself--I'm just saying it has been done, wholesale. People say it isn't possible, but it has been done. dt > > That is hilarious. > > >Yes, and the rest of the piece is even funnier, but I hope you notice >the similarity between your: > > > the thirty > > percent that we know must be fakes, but we don't know which ones > > they are. > >and Mark Twain's: > > > One of the shovels is undoubtedly genuine, but > > all authorities agree that the other one is spurious. It is not known > > which is the spurious one, and this is unfortunate > >I don't need an explanation of Mark Twain's line, because it occurs >in an essay that is an obvious lampoon of contemporary tourist >guidebooks. But I'd really like to know what you're talking about. >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
