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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

"Machines were rumbling from inside it"



"Machines were rumbling from inside it" - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

13 comments:

  1. A whole building with the patina of age, love it! What stories it could tell if it could speak......!!??

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  2. I think it's the building settling, not machines! What a great building.

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  3. never judge a book by its cover :))

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  4. He remembers the house of Charlie, the child of the factory of chocolate...

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  5. Oh my goodness that house does look like it is being eaten away from the inside.

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  6. I would not stamp too firmly on the ground or it looks like several centuries of Fachwerkhaus may come tumbling down.

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  7. I am loving the pictures from France - it seems as if the sunlight was incredible - all the photos have such wonderful shadows.

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  8. I love the way the roofing in these old buildings sags.

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  9. Thanks for all the comments - really - these photos work much better in colour - perhaps I should switch to colour the next days - don't know ...

    Roberto, yes - crooked and bent.

    thlofl, yes, it was a wonderful sunny day - blue sky -- did I say something about colour photos?


    @all, a friend of mine some weeks ago moved from a mediaeval Fachwerkhaus (half-timbered house?) into a 70's building - she is much more happy now - enough space and level walls for shelves, cupboards and the like ...

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  10. ...have a look at a post named SUL in ruinologias...
    :)

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  11. JMV, I did and I was wondering how old these streets and houses are ...

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  12. Where is ? Wonderful !!!!!
    Marcin

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  13. Marcin, here it is - really a wonderful city, yes.

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