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December 13, 2006
Are Your Arms Getting Longer?
I used to love to read the New York Times in bed.
No longer. I still enjoy reading the paper, but preferably in a space where I can stretch my arms far, far apart to look at the homongously-sized ads arrogantly displacing a whole page, if not the center-fold. Pretty soon, there will be a scroll-like attachment, antique style, to experience the unfolding epic story of a new fashion design or a new book that its publishing industry needs to promote "big times" in order to survive.
Many families could manage for a year on the expense for one such ad.
An uncomfortable thought.
That's it for today. My arms are still cramped from reading the morning paper, even though I no longer look at the ads.
Waste of time. And you too could be doing something interesting as well, like reading Maddalena. Alessandro Farnese's corrupt world threatened by Turkish onslaughts resembles our own.
Posted by Eva Siroka at December 13, 2006 11:17 AM