After a time-slip, con artist Gordon Fish receives nine packages containing a machine that makes magnificent drawings, but the instructions are in some unknown language.
There was a time slip in Southern California at about one in the afternoon. Mr. Gordon Fish thought it was an earthquake.

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  1. “Thing of Beauty” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy, September 1958.
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