Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Utility Lines

Today is theme day in the City Daily Photo community. The theme is "lines." I immediately thought of the utility lines which traverse so many streets in Boston. And I am reminded of Vladimir Nabokov's famous line about these lines in his novel, Pnin: "It was a pity nobody saw the display in the empty street, where the auroral breeze wrinkled a large luminous puddle, making of the telephone wires reflected in it illegible lines of black zigzags." From 1942 to 1948 Nabokov lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city just on the other side the Charles River from Boston, while teaching at Wellsley College. Sadly . . . this picture was taken not in the moonlight but in the blinding sunlight of a crystal clear day, a cloudless sky, and no puddles on the street. These utility lines are on Foster Street off of Brighton Center.

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6 comments:

Eki said...

The jumbled utility lines actually make a wonderful composition from this angle. Nice choice for theme day.

Eki

Gerald (SK14) said...

what a lot of lines indeed all connected - a great metaphor.

Tanya Breese said...

Happy Theme Day, nice post and picture :)

tr3nta said...

Yes Madrid is not bad... :-)

Lots of POST LINES on tour POST... :-)

Jane Hards Photography said...

Lines we can't live without in this day and age.

Jilly said...

Now that's a lotta lines! Gives a really interesting image for today's theme.

thanks for kind comments about Menton and Monte Carlo DP. Really appreciated, Ilse.