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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious CharacterIБЂ™ve gotta change it. What I want is a picture that, if the cops look at it, is perfectly OK for a massage parlor, but if a customer looks at it, it gives him ideas.БЂ«БЂњOK,БЂ«I said. We arranged it for sixty dollars, and I began to work on the drawing. First, I had to figure out how to do it. I thought and I thought, and I often felt I would have been better off drawing the nude toreador girl in the first place! Finally I figured out how to do it: I would draw a slave girl in imaginary Rome, massaging some important RomanБЂ”a senator, perhaps. Since sheБЂ™s a slave girl, she has a certain look on her face. She knows whatБЂ™s going to happen next, and sheБЂ™s sort of resigned to it. I worked very hard on this picture. I used Kathy as the model. Later, I got another model for the man. I did lots of studies, and soon the cost for the models was already eighty dollars. I didnБЂ™t care about the money; I liked the challenge of having to do a commission. Finally I ended up with a picture of a muscular man lying on a table with the slave girl massaging him: sheБЂ™s wearing a kind of toga that covers one breastБЂ”the other one was nudeБЂ”and I got the expression of resignation on her face just right ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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