More from my head...
Feb. 11th, 2009 09:36 amThe latest crop of adverts for a certain directory enquiries agency reminded me of my discovery, a few years ago (cruelly ignored by a literary establishment irretrievably mired in nepotism and internecine rivalries) of that select group of journeyman scribes who were employed, on a piecework basis, by timid writers of Victorian and Edwardian erotica (most of whom were single, since clearly no respectable married person would engage in such a trade) to provide enhanced descriptive passages relating to certain characteristics of the female form divine. As their discreet advertisements in the specialist periodicals used rhetorically to inquire: "With whom would it be to your advantage to initiate an immediate telephonic correspondence?"
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This is the advert I'm talking about, if that helps...
FURTHER EDIT: oh all right. The answer is
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EDIT:
This is the advert I'm talking about, if that helps...
FURTHER EDIT: oh all right. The answer is