# What We Have Come To explained — Fifty-One Tales

> Chapter companion for Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany.

## What happens

An advertiser weeps upon seeing cathedral spires, lamenting that they are not an advertisement for Beefo, highlighting the commodification of the sacred.

## Themes in this chapter

### Art vs. Commerce

The advertiser's lament contrasts the spiritual beauty of cathedral spires with the commercial desire for advertisement, illustrating the tension between art and commerce.

## Key lines

> When the advertiser saw the cathedral spires over the downs in the distance, he looked at them and wept. “If only,” he said, “this were an advertisement of Beefo, so nice, so nutritious, try it in your soup, ladies like it.”

Upon seeing the cathedral spires, the advertiser cried, wishing they were a Beefo ad instead.

_The advertiser's reaction underscores the theme of commerce overshadowing the sacred._

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