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Show Originally Aired: 2/12/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK
Love and the Art of Personal Ads
An illustrated personal ad from the London Times Email to friend
View personal ads from a London Review of Books page in which people had to draw themselves, and use no words.
Looking for love in the afternoon. How about "an Italian Bella Donna with a hazel eyes and a degree in art." Or a "Troll-like gurning male, trousers mostly held up with woven excerpts from Will Self's latest." Behold the art of the literary personal ad.
Elusive, descriptive and sometimes downright bizarre. As much of the lovelorn world bares all online looking for romance and sexual adventure, others are choosing instead to forego details of height, weight and hair color and instead pen ads that are more literary than literal.
For these lovers, the aim is to woo an erudite, well-traveled mate with eclectic tastes, box-seats to the opera, and a flair for fra diaviolo, as well as other spicy delights.
