Themes
Greeting all! Remember, only fifteen more shoplifting days til Christmas!
— Jerome Nash · Life's Work
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a mock-festive greeting that twists the familiar countdown to Christmas into a countdown to shoplifting. The humour is in the cheerful, salesman-like tone attached to something illicit, as though petty theft were another seasonal tradition to look forward to.
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