A pair of John Moore boots, finally bought, but only recently, from Present. I had wanted a pair of his shoes since the mid-1980s; but he was long-dead. Then someone started making them again.
It would be easy to dismiss these as ridiculous; but are they absurd, or just unfamiliar? In a sense, they are meta-shoes: shoes about shoes, pointing to the superfluousness of all the other aesthetic choices made in our footwear.
Above all, they are a like a lost language from my past, which pulls at the tongues of those who had forgotten they spoke it.
It would be easy to dismiss these as ridiculous; but are they absurd, or just unfamiliar? In a sense, they are meta-shoes: shoes about shoes, pointing to the superfluousness of all the other aesthetic choices made in our footwear.
Above all, they are a like a lost language from my past, which pulls at the tongues of those who had forgotten they spoke it.
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