Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Gold Fever




A Royal Treat — 24k Bio-Gold.
Gold Water. Let Your Skin Glow Like Gold. Royal Treat for Luminous, Radiant Skin.... 
Testimonials from Satisfied Users. Film-strip insert at foot of page showing a young filmic "Taiwanese Skincare Guru" applying the cream and awarding a glowing beneficiary, "shoppers in a buying frenzy" and convinced Bloggers shown in smiling line-up.
Prices omitted. (Authorial guess starter at two hundred and fifteen dollars, money back guarantee.)
The presence of gold on the streets here something one from another culture could not possibly imagine. Passing staff at the shops the unavoidable impression of tired dogs hanging at empty bowls; sometimes chins actually down on the glass counter. Usually armed dark-skinned Security Guards in tatty uniforms attending at enterprises where lighting bills possibly exceed that for the aircon.


NB. Headline in a news-story the following day: "Demand for gold in Asia 'set to double by 2030' "
                                                                 S. T.  Thur. 19 March 2015, p. A25




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