On the slippery slope

[redscharlach]

Here's a portion of visual whimsy from me, albeit on a fairly unseasonal subject.

This Guardian article about reading on holiday introduced me to a charming quote from Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia (no, I haven't read it either). But instead of just requoting it, I decided to combine it with a pictorial tribute to one of my fave illustrators,

Comments

[redscharlach]

Thanks! :-D

[violetknights]

Yes! yes! yes! Slippers need more recognition as quiet providers of comfort and warmth :D

Also I was one of those with a womble obsessed childhood so that was the first place my brain went to. I had a talking Orinoco until my brother decided to perforn surgery on him to see how he worked . . .

[redscharlach]

I had a collection of little plastic Womble figurine thingies, but I kept chewing on their hats and most of the paint came off...

[violetknights]

Oh and your icon has just sent me off on another nostalgia train. I am the reincarnation of Mavis Cruet :D

[bohemiabythesea]

This is great! It might start a process of reconciliation between me and Adorno...

[redscharlach]

I don't think it's going to make me go out there and plough through his life's work, but it's a jolly nice line...

[sallymn]

We concentrate on the major issues in life here on LJ, yes... :)

[redscharlach]

When I was living with flatmates a few years ago, another friend once told us that she'd never met a household so obsessed with comfortable nightwear.

I chose to view this as a compliment.

[gregoria44]

Pour homme, pour femme, pour anyone with feet.

Also - slippers for comfort, slippers for slippering statues of fallen leaders. They're just SO adaptable.

[redscharlach]

Slippers are indeed worthy of a monument, but since someone's been there and done that already, perhaps I'll have to build a monument to socks instead.