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2-NOV-2025 | Excerpt from Laurence Blume’s Ad for The Guardian

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Dan Bogachek
November 02, 2025

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Excerpt from Laurence Blume’s Ad for The Guardian

He read business at Harvard.

She read biochemistry at Cambridge.

They both read The Guardian at breakfast.

When he was fifteen, his French teacher said a young man of his age should ‘open wide his ears to the murmurings in the world’. His father laughed and suggested he bought The Guardian.

She was at Cambridge then. Her parents had always read The Guardian. It had once published a letter by her father regarding the spawning of perch.

He went up to the LSE. For two days he bought The Times, and on the third day reverted to his Guardian.

She completed her doctorate and set about finding a research post. If she ever missed The Guardian it was never on a Thursday. 🏁

  • Hook: it’s begging a “so what?” So we read on to find out more. And a bit of foreshadowing: romance.

  • The rest is the famous “most interesting man in the world” concept — all about identity. Here it’s the intellectual romantic version.

  • The shorter sentences create a choppy, care-free feel.