RUNS//DRIVES

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Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by a his self-made walking robot near his home in a village at the outskirts of Beijing, on January 8, 2009. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, made of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites. (Reuters/Reinhard Krause)
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reblololo:

Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by a his self-made walking robot near his home in a village at the outskirts of Beijing, on January 8, 2009. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, made of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites. (Reuters/Reinhard Krause)


wwnorton:

“[The narrator of ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’] is waiting for a savior to rise up—exactly what the narrator of ‘Thunder Road’ advised his beloved Mary not to doSignificantly, when that savior does arise in the song’s last verse, his conclusive words are not Springsteen’s own, but Steinbeck’s…”

Marc Dolan, unpacking The Boss’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” in Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ‘n’ Roll, out 6/4.

(Source: Spotify)