"The Art of the Matter" is short story in Frederick Forsyth's book The Veteran (2001). Set around the turn of the millennium in London, it tells the story of a middle-aged, impoverished, out-of-work actor, Trumpington Gore, who seeks revenge after being defrauded by the CEO of an art auction house.
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“Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“No matter what we see, we don’t see nuthin’, see?”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)