Open Brackets is holding a singles ad writing competition for a free subscription to the London Review of Books. The ideal ad will read like one that would be printed in LRB’s pages.

As much as I love the idea of entering, I’m awed by the brilliance of this entry:

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing—to live in accord with his nature…

Two days of the week, I’ll be everything you want (pre-feminism domestic, fascinated by stadium sports, ornithologically vocal in bed). Two days of the week, you’ll be everything I want (hygienic, compassionate, deranged-but-details-fixated in bed). One day of the week we can try to relate to each other as whole people, without the mind games and role-playing and sexist social issues. Then we’ll take two days apart, to recuperate. Depressingly practical woman, 28, WLTM a man of reason 25-45. No sociopaths, criminals, or church-goers, please.