Parody
Parody Oprah Winfrey's monthly "book club" is solely responsible for the sale of more than 1.5 million books in the last two months. — News item Judge Robert H. Bork Dear Miss Winfrey, Though...
...But the river of time can be altered in its flow by some agency—if, to take one example, you were to include my Prophecies in your book club...
...And if H should be that its homely lessons might serve them who only call you "Oprah" and "Oprah" alone, then my bookbinder is agreeable to a blanket offer of a 10 percent discount if your viewers order over the World Wide Web (www.breadand-circuses.com...
...That is indisputable...
...Therefore do I pray ^ accept these the three volumes of my humble woi^ Urn n^e and Fall of the Roman Empire...
...Amities, the Marquis de Sade...
...News item Judge Robert H. Bork Dear Miss Winfrey, Though you represent everything corrupt and lowering about our culture, I heartily recommend my Slouching Toward Gomorrah for your next monthly book club...
...Perhaps, in this way, you could make it up to America...
...Sincerely, Mistress Oprah Winfrey, Harpo, the West Loop, Chicago Honourable Lady, Though our days be short in this unhappy vale, yet does it seem the spending of U in the consideration of times and men past may bring en|ight-enment to all...
...With trepidation, Nostradamus Ma chere Oprah Winfrey - 1 think many in your audience—especially the ones you have on during sweeps—would enjoy my 120 Days of Sodom...
...I am, Lady, Abashed to sign myself Edward Gibbon Donna Oprah Winfrey, Floods and fire will devastate Harpo Studios by the year 1997...
Vol. 2 • December 1996 • No. 12