Pg 238
The top of the panel reads:
"For about a month, I lived at this rhythm, the night prostrate and the day letting myself be carried across Vienna by sleep and the tramway."
This panel appealed to me with its double-meaning. The picture itself seems to be a direct presentation of the text, showing the tramway--it can be assumed that our protagonist, Marjane Satrapi, is riding on it--going everywhere--up and down, side to side--but not particularly heading for a destination. Thi picture also implies that the nomadic way Marjane lived during this period applied to her life as well; her life, like the tramway in the picture, was wandering in every direction, but couldn't find a solid place (or person) to rest upon.
Furthermore, this drawing made me think of the song, "Life Is A Highway" by Tom Cochrane, aka a cliche: "life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long." The background, which is painted a solid black, fits into the song perfectly, but also suggests that Marjane only remembered the restless wandering, but the details of the lonely journey remained very vague in her mind.
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