Sunday, April 15, 2007

Vonnegut foot connection

Kurt Vonnegut died this week. I felt a sort of connection with him after learning about how the aliens in his novel "Cat's Cradle" mingled their souls together. They did so by pressing the bottoms of their feet together. It may sound odd, but I think that's really intimate. My twin sister and I used to soak our feet in out bathroom sink together all the time. Later, sometimes we would do it after dances, or after being out in the cold, or just to relax and talk before bed. As we got older and our feet got bigger they filled the sink so we had to rotate whose feet were on top like the sandwich game you play with your hands. Want to mingle your soul with someone else's, or open your hearts to each other? Soak your feet in a small sink together.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

love it! nice pic, let's do it again sometime

Anonymous said...

i love it. but, what if the other person has gross feet?

Tyler Root said...

Alene is the one on the right. I know this.

Anonymous said...

tyler, that is very impressive.