Ok, the folding plane thing is part of the website, not the April 1954 issue. The feature article in that issue, as you can see, is "How to Build a Tool Shed for Your Garden". Guess things have changed.
This brings back memories. I built one donkey's years ago and kind of missing it.
Lately, I have to assemble a few things in my flat. The simple things come with very detailed, complicated manuals whereas; the complicated things come with instructions in foreign languages. Things certainly have changed.
"The simple things come with very detailed, complicated manuals whereas; the complicated things come with instructions in foreign languages." Ha! And there we are, circa 2008... Well put.
My only attempt at solace would be that the poet John Ashberry won acclaim for a book called "The Instruction Manual", so named, at least in part I guess, because he actually had a job as a writer of instruction manuals. Ok, I know he has a mastery of language and all, but good luck to you if you buy a chaise long from Ikea and John Ashberry wrote the assembly instructions!
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Ok, the folding plane thing is part of the website, not the April 1954 issue. The feature article in that issue, as you can see, is "How to Build a Tool Shed for Your Garden". Guess things have changed.
This brings back memories. I built one donkey's years ago and kind of missing it.
Lately, I have to assemble a few things in my flat. The simple things come with very detailed, complicated manuals whereas; the complicated things come with instructions in foreign languages. Things certainly have changed.
"The simple things come with very detailed, complicated manuals whereas; the complicated things come with instructions in foreign languages." Ha! And there we are, circa 2008... Well put.
My only attempt at solace would be that the poet John Ashberry won acclaim for a book called "The Instruction Manual", so named, at least in part I guess, because he actually had a job as a writer of instruction manuals. Ok, I know he has a mastery of language and all, but good luck to you if you buy a chaise long from Ikea and John Ashberry wrote the assembly instructions!
I heard about that book but have never seen it. Or maybe, it's everywhere in different brands.
Thanks, I will try not to pull my hair...
I like Ikea. There's something admirably brave about pieces of furniture held together only by dowels and faith.
Faith and dowels... Nice; that phrase has promise...
But hold tight ye pantheist! More faith than dowels in your bookcase if a poet penned your assembly manual!
I like Ikea for small items like CD holders, doormat, bins - no one can beat their prices. Anything big will eventually fall apart.
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