CHRISTOPHER HERBERT,
Madam, - A recent advertisement in The Irish Times from a Dublin clothes retailer sums it all up. "Come! Let us adore it!" was the line used to entice readers to come and behold the store's Christmas gift range and offer up as many of their Christmas euro as it took to experience that most divine feeling of consumer gratification.
The spirit of Christmas degenerates with each year that goes by and messages like this sadly reflect the reality of the prevailing over-indulgence. Look out for further messages such as "Glory to our Winter Sale" and "Away in a Health and Beauty Spa". - Yours, etc.,
CHRISTOPHER HERBERT,
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Sorrento Heights,
Dalkey,
Co Dublin.