Sarah Charles - the enigma
Sept 10, 2014 10:39:52 GMT
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Post by Fanny on Sept 10, 2014 10:39:52 GMT
If the JPRB came down from on high through the munificence of the big brown handed one, it needed an organisational hand to turn it into paper reality. That organisational mega-brain was one Sarah Charles, the book's Earthly editor.
But who exactly was Sarah Charles?
She remains largely an enigma, but scholars of the Holy Book can study it for interesting clues. What follows is a prolegomena to this biographical conundrum.
Sarah Charles, I humbly suggest, was born between 1953-1958. In 1963 she tuned in (with or without siblings, but likely with her parents) to a fantastic new outer space programme on the BBC, Dr.Who, where her attention was captivated by the space-age Food Machine, first glimpsed on TV that December. It was for the young Ms Charles an instant smash hit. Where her young schoolmates played Outer Space Robot People, running around the playground with arms outstretched chanting "Total extermination!", Sarah instead would constantly be seen eating a succession of Mars bars she churned out of an upturned cardboard box which she had decorated with paints and crayons.
It was in some ways predestined. Canonical gourmandism was a trait ingrained in the Charles DNA, where Christmas Bunloaves (as evidenced in the text of the Holy Book) had been a hallowed family tradition dating from at least 1893. So with a combination of this innate foodie-ism, a passion for Dr Who, and a passing interest in Socialist Collectivism, Sarah Charles was embraced at (or not long after) school-leaving age by the budding Co-Op Marketing Department.
The Co-Op Marketing Department had recently been renamed from its previous title, the Co-Op Marketing Team, in order to create the impression it was more than just a couple of people in an office. This is the days before the modern communications behemoth that is the Co-Operative Marketing Directives and Strategies Conclave, a concern so vast that it can even get Richard Hannah to do the narration on their TV advertisements. Sarah Charles began this job with gusto, creating no less than three pamphlets 'Making the Most of Meat' (as referenced in the Holy Book, and study of which would prove invaluable to JPRB scholars should any copies be rediscovered).
But Ms Charles knew she was destined for yet greater things. And so did the Great One. When the Hallowed Pertwee stopped to look out his kitchen window one day, to gaze lovingly upon the green and pleasant land he knew and cherished (and had defended so often from alien invasion) so well, he knew that somewhere out there was a person qualified to turn his long-cherished dream of adventurous and yet affordable meals for all a reality. A simple spot of research soon lead him to the doors of the Co-Op... and Ms Charles' office.
The rest, as is our inexpressible joy to know, was history.
But who exactly was Sarah Charles?
She remains largely an enigma, but scholars of the Holy Book can study it for interesting clues. What follows is a prolegomena to this biographical conundrum.
Sarah Charles, I humbly suggest, was born between 1953-1958. In 1963 she tuned in (with or without siblings, but likely with her parents) to a fantastic new outer space programme on the BBC, Dr.Who, where her attention was captivated by the space-age Food Machine, first glimpsed on TV that December. It was for the young Ms Charles an instant smash hit. Where her young schoolmates played Outer Space Robot People, running around the playground with arms outstretched chanting "Total extermination!", Sarah instead would constantly be seen eating a succession of Mars bars she churned out of an upturned cardboard box which she had decorated with paints and crayons.
It was in some ways predestined. Canonical gourmandism was a trait ingrained in the Charles DNA, where Christmas Bunloaves (as evidenced in the text of the Holy Book) had been a hallowed family tradition dating from at least 1893. So with a combination of this innate foodie-ism, a passion for Dr Who, and a passing interest in Socialist Collectivism, Sarah Charles was embraced at (or not long after) school-leaving age by the budding Co-Op Marketing Department.
The Co-Op Marketing Department had recently been renamed from its previous title, the Co-Op Marketing Team, in order to create the impression it was more than just a couple of people in an office. This is the days before the modern communications behemoth that is the Co-Operative Marketing Directives and Strategies Conclave, a concern so vast that it can even get Richard Hannah to do the narration on their TV advertisements. Sarah Charles began this job with gusto, creating no less than three pamphlets 'Making the Most of Meat' (as referenced in the Holy Book, and study of which would prove invaluable to JPRB scholars should any copies be rediscovered).
But Ms Charles knew she was destined for yet greater things. And so did the Great One. When the Hallowed Pertwee stopped to look out his kitchen window one day, to gaze lovingly upon the green and pleasant land he knew and cherished (and had defended so often from alien invasion) so well, he knew that somewhere out there was a person qualified to turn his long-cherished dream of adventurous and yet affordable meals for all a reality. A simple spot of research soon lead him to the doors of the Co-Op... and Ms Charles' office.
The rest, as is our inexpressible joy to know, was history.