This was a huge discovery for me and helped me understand all those medieval plots where the hero (say like Faustus) meets the seven deadlies and falls like ripe fruit. "Why, oh why, oh why" I asked myself, "those things are so disgusting." Then I realized that they were just the medieval expression of modern day advertising...and were thought to be just as effective. After all where money/power rules so do the seven deadlies.
Joanna
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Did I mention the billboard in Chicago I saw
>advertsing a new model Jag, asking Can You Resist
>Temptation?, and then listing the Seven Deadly Sins:
>Lust, PRIDE (in caps), Greed, Envy, Anger, Sloth, and
>Gluttony? These are apparently an advertising slogan
>now. Maybe on the theory that if you can afford the
>car, you are going to Hell anyway. jks
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>--- Todd Archer <todda39 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>Went out for brekky this morning and saw a car in
>>the restaurant's parking
>>lot with New York plates sporting the vanity license
>>number "VENGEANCE".
>>
>>My lovely (and reasonably devout Christian) wife
>>immediately quoted,
>>"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord."
>>
>>(And no, it wasn't some armoured-up-the-wazoo
>>behemoth or sporting a gun
>>rack; it was a mid-sized four-door job, electric
>>blue in colour.)
>>
>>Hold me. I'm scared.
>>
>>Todd !{)>
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