A few test printouts of the Caravaggios now decorate a salon in the Madrid workshop, giving it the air of a Mafia safe house filled with stolen masterpieces.
"Since I was innocent, I didn't have anything to fear," says Ngarbaye, now secretary of the victims' association, sitting in the organisation's tumbledown headquarters, a few faded printouts of victims taped to the wall behind her.
Sometimes you might not get the printout for a few days.
"Doc, what happens when the market is down twelve points at one o'clock and it has been down significantly the previous two days?" A few minutes later, Castaldo handed him another computer printout.
"Doc," he said to Castaldo, "what does the market do when it opens down a lot three days in a row?" A few minutes later, Castaldo handed Niederhoffer a computer printout, which showed that since the start of 2003 there had been just ten occasions on which, for three consecutive days, the S. & P. 500 had fallen sharply in the first hour and a half of trading.
The crowd lay in wait for him with sharpened reports from the Congressional Budget Office, incendiary printouts from liberal blogs, and even a few lethal rolled-up newspapers with articles about the House plan.
After a while Sebő began taking photos of the front page with his phone and darted inside; a few minutes later he returned clutching a handful of printouts that he arranged on the table.
But a guy with a clipboard and a thick computer printout of addresses was standing on the corner, informing a few random people — those curious or bored enough to engage him in conversation — that, since the 2010 census, their polling station might have changed.
After just a few months, he is already making a good living from the long hours he spends selling printouts.
For a few hundred dollars less, you can buy a 3.5-megapixel digital camera, suitable for making 6-by-8 printouts at true photo quality.
