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Wisdom while you wait

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A brief satirical miscellany masquerades as promotional material for a ludicrously grand encyclopaedia, blending parodic advertising copy, faux testimonials, a boastful preface, and absurdly detailed terms of sale. Fragments include mock lists of editors and departments, ridiculous delivery and storage schemes, secret-packing forms, and officious warnings that escalate into surreal consequences. The piece lampoons commercial hype, publishing pretension, and bureaucratic pomposity by using hyperbole, formal documents, and comic inversion of practical concerns.

Wisdom While
You Wait

BEING A FORETASTE OF
THE GLORIES OF THE
‘INSIDECOMPLETUAR
BRITANNIAWARE’....

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

1902