Shop yourself into submission, at. . .

. . .The Chain Store.

Shackle Report’s online shop is open for Christmas, featuring all things shackle-related (however obliquely) accompanied by our painfully honest product descriptions.

For now we are pushing books and a bit of jewelry. But eventually, we hope to seduce you into buying a wide range of items that will help you escape the humdrum world of paying for things you bought in an effort to avoid thinking about how deeply into debt you’ve fallen.

And now, for a sample book:

Cosmos-politan

If you’ve ever wondered whether the human mind is a sort of shackle all on its own, this is the book you can’t finish that thought without. It is a new translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s classic (40’s) excursion into the joys and pitfalls of obsessive paranoid narrative, the nearly universal impulse to imagine that one thing leads to another. Droll, sexy and smarter than a slap, Witold has . . .

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