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corpus week 7: tom thumb

By Marie
Created 7 Nov 2007 - 12:36pm

In the 1958 musical film tom thumb there's a musical number entittled "Talented Shoes" in which a man is at the market selling magic shoes, shoes which when put on enable the wearer to dance extraordinarily well.  The shoes are sort of a prosthesis in that they change the physical abilities of the wearer.  Sometimes, the shoes take over and the person cannot stop dancing.  In the film this never turns into anything terrible or dangerous, it's just wacky. 

 


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