“He who wears tite boots will hav too acknowledge the corn.”
Josh Billings
more infosource: “Tight Boots,” in The Complete Works of Josh Billings (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co. 1876), 52.
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category: boot, discomfort, pain, proverb, school of life
medium: Essay
“Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since she is no longer anywhere, who was once where I could go back). I am seeking my place. Sitio.”
Roland Barthes
more infosource: entry dated August 1, 1978, in Mourning Diary, translated by Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 2010), 176.
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category: alienation, death, discomfort, mourning
medium: diary
notes: On index cards, Roland Barthes starting keeping a mourning diary the day after his mother died in October 1977.
discomfort