Monk Quixote

I was mus­ing the other day, as one does, that there are some use­ful par­al­lels to be drawn between run­ning and writ­ing.  And some less so. I was think­ing about the rela­tion­ship between joy and pain, mind vs duende and, obvi­ously, shoes.  Although I do not yet pos­sess a pair of writ­ing shoes.  Think­ing about it, I tend to write in socks.  By which I do not mean that I am some sort of Jimmy Cricket / Mr Bean –style sock-labeller, but some­one who wears socks while writ­ing.  Or to be pre­cise, typ­ing.  I do wear shoes while I’m writ­ing in Star­bucks.  Although I notice the lit­tle peo­ple con­sider shoes both optional and occa­sion­ally, nutri­tious.  But I digress.

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