Thursday, February 22, 2007

Ideas of Entitlement

—He looked back at the sign, advertising one of the businesses in this mall. The top part was written in script letters: “Pure Interiors.” The bottom half of the sign was a reader board with movable block letters. It read: “God Bless America. New Furniture Arriving Every Day.”
In Remy’s lap was an open pint of Irish whiskey. His hands were shaking. He took a drink and looked back up at the sign: God Bless…New Furniture. He stared at the sign until the words threatened to make some sense,—
The Zero, Jess Walter

Funny how different the "war effort" used to be:


More ads on conserving instead of consuming fats, paper, bottles, cans and GASOLINE here:

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/wwad-history.html

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