Word: advertisa
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...invoked by business and by all Americans. She is petitioned on every street, in every magazine or newspaper and wherever people gather. She has been called Advertisa. But her so celebrated, go constant presence surely deserves a better name from stunned or dinary mortals. In a thousand ways the tenth muse's charms have outshone all the charms of her sisters. Only her priests are surviving her blinding polecy. They glory in a terrific combination of red and yellow geometric splashes with shouting black letters of "fire and rummage sale." They glory in page after page of pirate ship packages...
...faithless must beware the consuming fury of Advertisa. Pagans of the world must unite, for single-handed they cannot resist the proselytizing forces of the priests. Unless they get Advertisa Advertisa will get them. With her terrifying and deadly juxtaposition of jarring colors and incongruous commodities, in a stupefying rush of unrelated station signs, bill boards, highway signs, and white ways, she will wreak fatigue, death, destruction upon their heathen intellects. They will be dizzy forever. The infiedels must seize arms and battle for their last strongholds, the mountains, the forests, the wilds, against Moloch, the chimera, the eighth plague...
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