On the floor’s my shoes, big lumberboot flopjack workshoes to colomp over rockbed with and not turn the ankle——solidity shoes that when you put them on, yokewise, you know you’re working now and so for same reason shoes not be worn for any reason like joys of restaurant and shows.——Night-before shoes are on the floor beside the clunkershoes a pair of blue canvas shoes . . . I’d trod soft as ghost the indented hill sidewalks of Ah Me Frisco in the glitter night.

—“The Railroad Earth,” Jack Kerouac

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