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Orion Magazine - Autumn 2021 PERHAPS the most obvious example is Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay’s Gothic pastoral about a group of girls who venture to the top of a mountain and fall into a kind of metaphysical sleep. But it’s as much a tradition, the story of uncertain worlds above. Just seven years before the events at Hanging Rock, Arthur Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes to the top of another fateful mountain. By this point in his career, having run a swamp adder through the HVAC of a creaky manor and deduced a killer’s identity by the shape of a severed ear, Conan Doyle had at his disposal a fairly robust artillery.

SNL's 13 Best Fake Ads as Chosen by Real Ad Execs Everyone has their favorite moments from "Saturday Night Live," which celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend. But arguably, nothing has consistently defined the show as much as its fake commercials. "Secretly, we all covet the opportunity to create work that SNL will spoof," says Adam Tucker, president of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising New York. It's a compliment, sure. And there's a powerful business reason why: "The social currency a campaign can get from an SNL parody is marketing gold," says Pete VonDerLinn, executive creative director at Partners & Napier.

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