Classifieds and Personals
I only just found out today about the LRB classifieds. What a source of merriment and bemusement it is!
A sample, for your perusal, peeps:
Elegant truth-seeking musician seeks wise enchantress to gamble with the seeds of life.
Virum lepidum quaero qui Dick, Jock et Snowy meminisse potest, atque cum hilara femina per litteras colloqui vult. Anglice respondere licet. Imago?
Ann, 55, inelegant.
email: inelegantbutinteresting@hotmail.co.uk
Not very friendly woman seeks not very friendly man.
box no. 13.01
The eligible and the curious are invited to associate freely at the Freud Museum’s singles nights.
web: www.freud.org.uk/events
Passionate intellectual F (Ldn) desires really nice geeky M, 45-55, for Edinburgh Festivaling.
Woman wanted by man 38, bit thick, but very large penis.
And then, there’s the really cool real estate advertisements:
Sunny, north London flat, hour British Museum, avail. 1 Oct-early Dec. New décor, broadband, cable telly. One double, one single BR, in small modern building, 10 minutes to Finsbury Park (Victoria/Piccadilly/BR lines). Culturally diverse area.
Hampstead Flat, top floor, straightforward, quiet and bright, two bedrooms. Decent transport, shops, 2 minutes from the Heath. Available from August for the semester or (ideally) the entire academic year.
Summer in London. 2-3 month let from June, 1-bedroom flat NW5, sleeps two, 2 mins tube, close to Heath, 15 mins to centre.
Artist’s lovely split-level 1-bedroom flat with private roof terrace, NW5, available from May (2-6 month let), sleeps two, 2 mins tube, close to Heath, 15 mins to centre.
London E2, family home, 15 mins Oxford Circus, 5 weeks from 23rd July.
Makes me wonder why the ARB does not have anything like it…