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The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes

Invisibilia

CHAPTER

Shoes Are to Blame

The author was walking in a redwood forest when he realized his shoes weren't feeling much of anything. When we invented footwear, probably some forty thousand years ago, according to experts, we also slipped a surface between ourselves and world. "With shoes, we swapped intimacy for a well regulated separation," writes the writer.

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