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Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder must Advertise

Irgendwie brauchte ich mal eine Pause von Chaucer/Coghill und dieser Lord Peter Wimsey - Band wollte auf einmal wieder gelesen werden - weiß der Geier, wann ich ihn das letzte Mal las, das muß ewig hersein. Und wie jedesmal, wenn ich Sayers lese, wundert mich wie zeitlos viele Sachen bei ihr sind. Bei der Werbung scheint sich grundlegend wenig bis garnichts geändert zu haben.

"How should anything be sacred to an advertiser? We spend our whole time asking intimate questions of perfect strangers and it naturally blunts our finer feelings. 'Mother! has your Child Learnt Regular Habits?' 'Are you Troubled with Fullness after Eating?' 'Are you satisfied about your Drains?' 'Are you Sure that your Toilet-Paper is Germ-free?' 'Your most intimate Friends dare not Ask you this question.' 'Do you Suffer from Superfluous Hair?' 'Do you Like them to Look at your Hands?' 'Do you ever ask yourself about Body-Odour?' 'If anything Happened to you, would you Loved Ones be safe?' 'Why spend so much Time in the Kitchen?' 'You think that Carpet is Clean - but is it?' 'Are you a Martyr to Dandruff?' Upon my soul, I sometimes wonder why the long-suffering public doesn't rise up and slay us."
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