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>But this passion for the beauty of the foot - so powerful that it has never failed to rouse desire in me, and could render me oblivious even to ugliness - does it spring from the body or the mind? In all those who have it, it is there to excess; on what is it founded? Is it related to a light ease in walking? To the sensuous grace of the dance? A factitious passion for shoes is but a reflection of that for the beautiful feet which give grace even to animals; one grows accustomed to think of the envelope as the thing itself. Thus the attraction which dainty shoes have had for me from childhood is an artificial taste based on a natural one; whereas my passion for a little foot has a physical cause only, indicated in the proverb: 'Parvus pes, barathrum grande', the facility thus given being favorable to procreation.
Restif de la Bretonne, Monsieur Nicolas
Restif de la Bretonne, Monsieur Nicolas
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