jonathandeacon
agent squirrel
reaches for the stars
Jonathan Deacon, of Newport Business School, brings us the second installment of his
marketing saga The Tyranny of Sameness
The journey to the non-descript always on the outskirts of a city vehicles within near accident distance
office block at Altens took no time someplace, always near a ring road of the now stationary Audi.
at all, the engine tone of the Audi and always populated by fast food “No,” he lied. In his game it paid to
V8 was the automotive equivalent ‘drive thru’s’ and featureless express be selective with the truth about
of a Cadbury flake advert from the hotels in a state of sameness the movements and people.
not so PC 80s. world over. “According to the poster at the
Star had cut through the ring road “Just out of interest,” said Squirrel, airport this is Europe’s oil capital, and
hatch back and rep mobile flotsam “is the receptionist’s name Grey?” so it strikes me that this is a funny
and jetsam with the skill of a touring Star looked somewhat puzzled at place to set up a lingerie firm.”
car champion, except this champion such a suggestion, her sideways “We trade internationally, Squirrel,”
was wearing six inch stiletto heels. glance momentarily took her eyes off dismissed Star, “that’s the beauty of
This could be an interesting day the task of parking the RS at, what the internet. No barriers, level playing
thought Squirrel. Squirrel thought, was an unhealthy field, everywhere accessible at the
The office was one of those speed, the antilock braking system, by click of a mouse and the lick of a
shared and serviced varieties. now, working very hard to cease the stamp.”
The block could have been forward motion of Vorsprung durch Star expressed this last comment
anywhere, anytown, anystate, – a sort Technik. with a practiced air – it sounded like a
of grey concrete with tinted grey “So, you have been to Aberdeen strap line to an advertisement or a
windows and grey metal doors. before?” Star stated without once well-rehearsed comment made during
Altens is one of those places, looking at the proximity of the other a power dressed, corporate death by
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