Persuasion

October6

I’m in the airport looking at a book called Persuasion.

It’s one of the hundreds of self help books that populate airport bookstores. It claims to be able to teach you how to become some sort of Svengali, making people your meat puppets.

Being a con man, this kind of thing is right up my alley so I’m looking at it wondering whether I should I buy it.

But I have realised that maybe the only reason I’m considering buying this book is because the author is using his powers of influence to make me buy it.

This evil master mind is forcing me to buy a book I don’t want.

Of course, if the book really does have that power, then I definitely should buy it.

I flip through the contents to see if there is a chapter called “How To Make People Buy Your Book Through Hypnotic Cover Design.” It’s not there.

Maybe he’s saving it for the sequel.

If I buy the book, his powers have worked and it’s a Good Book.

If I don’t buy the book, it’s probably crap. What sort of persuasion expert can’t even sell a book?

Maybe they have the new Dan Brown…

not this book

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2 Comments to

“Persuasion”

On October 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am matt Says:
your a very strange man Mr Johnson.
On October 7th, 2009 at 8:37 am manky-k Says:
I believe that airports purposely sell these types of books because they know that when your sitting in a airport feeling tired and vunerable they sell you crap like purfume and self help books and crappy souviners.