Parody
Parody "Those women are cutting prices and stealing our business. . . . We're only getting one or two clients a day when it was five or six before." (Florence, a 37-year-old French prostitute...
...Have you made your selection...
...This week we're having a sale...
...No, not stolen...
...Honest...
...Springtime at my father's dacha...
...It's the despair...
...Are we not trapped in cycles of climax and recovery, signifying nothing...
...No, no, you keep right on going...
...What's a Lewinsky...
...I can throw in a VCR...
...I'm afraid the wait is at least an hour...
...The longing for Mother Russia...
...Why do you ask...
...Is not banality the cruelest form of oppression...
...The longing...
...The masses...
...I only do sex theory...
...How can one put a price tag on something so ineffable...
...OK...
...Yes, I close for lunch...
...The wheat...
...I was just thinking of the plight of the Palestinians...
...Florence, a 37-year-old French prostitute complaining that prostitutes from former Soviet bloc countries are taking over the Parisian sex trade...
...You want the culture police in here...
...By the way, would you like to buy an intercontinental missile...
...Should I bring my sisters...
...Sorry, what was that...
...Endless fields of wheat . . ." ". . . Pushkin...
...Are you sure...
...No, I don't do sex...
...Please make a better suggestion...
...Yes I bathed last month...
...Fine...
...I didn't mean to take your watch...
...Sometimes I despair for the Russian soul...
...Do you mind if I take the refrigerator when we're done...
...The loneliness...
...The Times (London), July 22, 2002 A Tale of Two Marketing Strategies What French and Russian prostitutes say to their clients The French Style "Do you have a reservation...
...It must have fallen into my purse...
...Is this not a fundamental right of man...
...The Russian Style "Do you work for the IMF...
...Just give me your wallet...
...6...
...This is a nice hotel suite...
...The fields...
...Look, if you're going to talk dirty, it has to be in French...
...All happy hookers are alike, but each unhappy hooker is unhappy in her own way...
...I'll just lie here weeping...
...Honest...
...I charge $10,000...
...Have I mentioned the wheat...
...We offer reduced corporate rates...
...Why are you taking off your clothes...
...The Urals...
...No, it's not the drugs...
...You're boring me...
Vol. 7 • August 2002 • No. 45
