#627 Skin- Roald Dahl
We’ve all made crazy choices while drunk, right? The classic story about waking up with a tattoo you forgot about getting. Drioli is a tattoo artist and he had the biggest day of his career. Teeming with money and joy he brings home wine for him, his wife, and the young brooding artist working in his studio. As the night progresses and this young man becomes enamored with his wife, Drioli has an idea: He wants the artists to tattoo a picture of his wife on his own back. It is done.
Years later, decades really, he is walking the streets cold, poor, hungry and without friends or family remaining. He is stopped by a beautiful painting in a gallery window. He’s not sure why he has stopped, but then realizes the work was done by the same artist that gave him the tattoo all that time ago. Only now, Chaim Soutine is a world famous painter.
He enters he gallery and as he is being escorted out by the snobbish crowd he strips off his shirt and reveals the masterpiece on his back. There is a bidding war for the piece between one man willing to pay for a skin graft to remove the work physically and other that will pay him to walk around shirtless at his beachside hotel. Funny!
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