blackandwhiteandcolours: "They don't give you a manual"

Monday, August 10, 2009

"They don't give you a manual"

"They don't give you a manual" - The Valetudinarian by Joshua Ferris

9 comments:

Sean said...: This made me smile Martina...; 10 August, 2009 22:38
Sean said...: Do you take requests Martina? For some reason I want to give you a quote and see what you do with it... dont know why....; 10 August, 2009 23:29
Joan Elizabeth said...: Your last two posts have simply delighted me. The marriage of quote and image has been superb.; 11 August, 2009 05:34
AB said...: Now I see how you knew about Amphicars! Useful if your car should fall off your boat.; 11 August, 2009 09:18
Martina said...: Sean, might be fun ... just mail me the quote and I will wait for the muses to kiss me :-D

Joan Elizabeth, :-) ... sometimes it's easier to find quotes in not-so-literaly-challenging texts, ;-)

AB, that's always funny: I see an Amphicar for the first time in my life in Paris and three weeks later you are posting one on your blog ... they are following me uuuuh ... .; 11 August, 2009 17:48
Ulrica said...: I keep looking at the photo and wonder.... How did they get the car up there?; 11 August, 2009 19:42
Martina said...: Ulrica, where I live (near Rhine and Main river) we see many cargo ships with cars on them, usually they have a cran.; 11 August, 2009 20:02
Cynthia said...: The shadow in the background of
this photo is intriguing.

Love the concept of your blog.
Plus you offer an interesting
reading list.; 13 August, 2009 13:29
Martina said...: Cynthia, thx for coming by and your comments - perhaps one day I will use one of your haiku or poems as quotes, ;-); 13 August, 2009 17:53