Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A s — George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A s — George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A s — George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A s — George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A s — George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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