“Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.”

—  Alan Coren

"And Though They Do Their Best To Bring…".
The Sanity Inspector (1974)

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