We
have this image on display at work and it gets a lot of attention. Everyone who
sees it, gasps in amazement and then says something along the lines of “you
can’t keep a good reader down!”, or “that’s resilience for you”. It seems to
create a spirit of camaraderie amongst fellow readers and this hearkens back to
things I was saying earlier about how people in bookshops somehow feel like
they’re all part of some big secret community.
In
fact, you might have clapped eyes on this image a few seconds ago and had
similar feelings and thoughts about it. If you’d like to take away those warm
and fuzzy notions with you, then you should leave now.
...
Have
you gone yet? This is your last chance.
...
Okay,
this is really your last chance to
skip on to something else. Seriously, I’m about to ruin whatever you might
think about what these guys are up to.
...
Okay.
Now that the only people left reading are the tough-minded cynical types, I can
reveal to you that these fellows are insurance assessors totting up their
company’s pay-out after a bomb went through their client’s shop. Yep, despite
appearances, nothing but cold, hard, finance happening here.
If
you were wanting a sentimental, Blitz-based image celebrating the do-or-die
adherence of readers to their hobby, look at this instead:
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