Welcome to Stormfield Manor. We're only a foyer and a sitting room right now, but soon there should be many rooms to explore. But for now, sit back, have some tea, and enjoy the scenery--you won't be able to see most of it once they put the walls up.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
What We Have Come To, by Lord Dunsany
When the advertiser saw the cathedral spires over the downs in the distance, he looked at them and wept.
"If only," he said, "this were an advertisement of Beefo, so nice, so nutritious, try it in your soup, ladies like it."
2 comments:
Um. What? Am I stupid or is it you?
It's a very subtle commentary on modern attitudes and mindset, in the form of a very short story by a master story teller.
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