In Norway and Denmark, early editions of Hamsun are fetching ever-higher prices, though these are mostly the books he wrote long before the rise of Fascism.
For the next five hours, I fill his belly with dog treats and participate in the longest game of fetch ever played in a hotel lobby.
Our annual glimpse into the future, the same future we saw last year, the year before and that seems as far away and far fetched as ever.
Flash forward three years and I'd dropped out of NYU and had a masthead title at a major magazine without ever fetching anyone coffee.
Speculation is now turning to what prices others could fetch should they ever go on the block.
The prices these clothes will fetch if they ever make it to the racks of Brand Select Recycle just don't bear thinking about.
In May, his Orange, Red, Yellow was sold in New York for $86.9m£53.8m8m) – the highest price ever fetched by a piece of contemporary art at auction.
Painting Sold for $200,000 Last month, one of his paintings, "Boy with Watermelons," was sold at a Christie's auction in New York for $200,000, the highest price ever fetched by a Latin American artist.
Some of the highest prices ever fetched at auction anywhere in the world have been achieved in Hong Kong, according to Regtransfers.co.uk, a company that deals in car registrations in Britain, one of only a handful of countries where new license plates are auctioned by the authorities.
Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow has been sold for $86.9 million £53.8mm) - the highest price ever fetched for a piece of contemporary art at auction.
I think about the man whose orange sculpture of an inflatable dog sold for £37.1 million [$60 million], the largest sum a work by a living artist has ever fetched at auction.
