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Shoes [dignity of shoes]

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'Too young to understand the dignity of shoes,' Hanes said. — Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street (1973)

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Jacques Derrida · The truth in painting. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod (1987) Restitutions of the truth in pointing [pointure] for J.C. . . . . . sztejn (p. 255)

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(...) You'll walk that floor - and wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break - you're learnin' the blues (...)

— Learnin' the Blues [Song written by Dolores 'Vicki' Silvers; recorded by Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra in 1955]

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. — Henry D. Thoreau, Walking (first published in the 'Atlantic Monthly' in 1862)

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Shoes [dignity of shoes I] [Gouache on paper]

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Shoes/Polypores — [Photographs, 2015/16] · Galerie öffnen

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Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo

'Sometimes I think the education we dispense is better suited to a fifty-year-old who feels he missed the point the first time around. Too many abstract ideas. Eternal verities left and right. You'd be better served looking at your shoe and naming the parts. You in particular, Shay, coming from the place you come from.' — Underworld, p. 540

'Everyday things represent the most overlooked knowledge. These names are vital to your progress. Quotidian things. If they weren't important, we wouldn't use such a gorgeous Latinate word. Say it,' he said. 'Quotidian.'
'An extraordinary word that suggests the depth and reach of the commonplace.' — Underworld, p. 542

What a wretchedness it was, what a complete humiliation of the spirit. You're like a museum of poverty People walk by and look. The bed, the plates and glasses, the suitcase with your clothes, a pair of old shoes in a paper bag. Imagine shoes. And they walk by and look. Who says this, who says that, who sits in a chair, who points from a car. They should be ashamed to look. A man's shoes on the sidewalk. — Underworld, p. 768

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I keep hearing a vicious rumor
From the backrooms, to the alleys, to the avenues
That you lost your sense of humor
And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes (...)

— Chemical Switches [Andrew Bird, Album: Are You Serious, 2016]

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I knew a man
Bojangles
And he'd dance for you
In worn out shoes
With silver hair, a ragged shirt
And baggy pants
He would do the old soft shoe
He could jump so high
Jump so high
And then he'd lightly touch down

(...)

— Mr. Bojangles [Songwriter: Jerry Jeff Walker]

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