Take Your Supplement

(This Means You)

That most comprehensive and improving of dictionaries, the Satanic Supplement, is now available as a book. Most of it is also available in brief installments on this weblog; but as Rupert Murdoch and other internet modernisers will tell you, there is very little point in getting something for free on the web when you can pay to get it on paper. The book version of the Satanic Supplement will not add to your electricity bill or strain your eyes; reading it will not adversely affect your posture and will require only a few dozen restful page-turns to get through, instead of all that nasty clicking and scrolling. You will not need a laptop to read it on public transport, and it will serve as well as any other paper book of similar dimensions for filling a narrow but unsightly gap on your shelf or for swatting insects. Properly administered in appropriate quantities, it will stop creaky floorboards, silence noisy neighbours, fight terrorism with one hand and global warming with the other, and eliminate many garden pests and some Jehovah's Witnesses. Quite frankly, speaking as an ordinary British wife and mother, I really can't imagine how you've got this far without it.