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There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

— Samuel Beckett

A small pale sculpted foot pokes out of a worn brown boot beside a curled leaf.
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An editorial interpretation.

That's humanity for you, says the speaker: people blame their footwear for problems that are really their own feet. It's a wry image of shifting blame onto the nearest object instead of admitting the fault is our own.

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