Carolina QuotesAnother dissatisfied mortal writes: "I am reminded of a TV set that a company wanted me to try, free of charge, for a couple of months; the case was made of extruded white plastic, ugly as a Tasmanian devil, with a plastic white clock stuck on it like a second eye."
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 176
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
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- p. 176
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