28 - T-Readers

‘Elegant, schmelegant!’ says Dido Doolittle staring across the road at the new window display in Yifitsinprint Books.  The recent meeting of the Gwair Literary Gala Committee broke up in acrimony over the application by E-Bargum, retailer of e-readers, who was plotting (sic) to acquire the leasehold on number 26. Now Yifitsinprint has artistically designed notices promoting E-Bargum’s Earl Grady’s T-Readers. As she watches, Dido sees Oud Ramonides, still disorientated from his clove tea. He is carrying a billboard proclaiming alliteratively, ‘Punish patronising painters propping up perpendicular palisades!’ Obscurely it is publicising a petition against the local builders and decorators who have won the contract to work on the new Hypermarket.