But they have also sought to take whatever magic the building had, real or perceived, and reproduce it on an industrial scale.
When Al Hirschfeld drew a particularly unflattering caricature of him as a Grinch-like Santa Claus, Mr. Merrick reproduced it on his annual Christmas card.
For Franzen, this is the imagination's price, the arduous means by which he conjures a fictional world and reproduces it on the page.
Skype captures that 90 percent on a low-resolution video camera, compresses it, funnels it to a node computer and reproduces it on a screen anywhere in the world.
Once you gave it to him, it was his to do with as he wished: trash it, sell it, reproduce it on shower curtains (assuming copyright laws were honored).
"I realise now that I didn't understand Gunn, but I could smell the tone, which I was attracted to, and I reproduced it on a very shallow level".
When examining patients on the autistic spectrum, for example, he highlighted, and informed the public about, individuals with the capacity to draw precisely from memory, the capacity to make calculations nearly at the speed of a computer, or the ability to listen to a piece of music and reproduce it on the piano.
To try to capture that and reproduce it on a large and frenetic commercial scale is just silly, and most attempts to do so yield exactly the thing we deserve when we sit at brunch and reach for the stars: a slug of cheap cava with some artificial peach cordial in it.
The book begins with a note from the publisher explaining the reasons for pressing ahead with the unauthorized autobiography; the company also released the note in a press release and reproduced it on the the book's Amazon page: We disagree with Julian's assessment of the book.
