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Chapter 11 My SNEAKER Story

elephant factory comedy 村上春树 849Words 2018-03-18
The name SNEAKER is incorrect. SNEAKER means "despicable person", and the correct term is SNEAKERS.But it doesn't matter anyway. SNEAK means "walking quietly and secretly".Indeed, you can walk quietly by wearing SNEAKER.Whoever first invented these rubber-soled shoes must have given friends and family a lot of reprimands: "What the hell, what the hell, it's you! Wouldn't it be scary to sneak up from behind!" "Hey, don't wear them Those new shoes! It made me feel weird, and I made three plates." But the person who invented the rubber-soled shoes suddenly felt that it was so funny that he might have come up with a lot of tricks, which is very funny to imagine.After careful investigation, it turned out that the rubber-soled shoes were invented by a harness shop owner named James P. Bradley in Boston in 1872. As for Bradley, there was no way to verify his personality. There is no record of being criticized by relatives and friends.Both Edison and the Wright Brothers have detailed biographies, and I think it's unfair to say so little about the inventor of the rubber-soled shoe.

Regardless of this.Speaking of which, Bradley seems to be a rather peculiar figure.He was fined thirteen dollars by the city for his original invention of the rubber-soled horseshoe.This is because the horse with the rubber-soled horseshoes walked quietly and licked the neck stem of the old woman who was walking in front with its tongue.The old woman fainted, Bradley was taken away by the police, fined, and the rubber-soled horseshoe was knocked off. However, Bradley continued to study rubber-soled horseshoes unrelentingly, and was finally adopted by the begging Indian army.The old lady of Boston was not the same thing as a Seminole warrior.

Then, in 1892, Bradley took a Copernican-style, Okamoto-style turn in his head—since horseshoes can use rubber soles, can’t people’s shoe soles also use rubber soles?And so, the "Bradley Sneaker" was born. "Bradley-style rubber-soled shoes" did not know when they were called SNEAKERS.The name is full of malice.From this point of view, the conservative and stable citizens of Boston couldn't bear Bradley's invention. The stars turn and the bucket moves, 1982. I like rubber-soled shoes the most, and I wear them three hundred and fifty days a year.There are also various styles of shoes: hard-soled, low-cut, with basketball stars, red, green, white, and asymmetrical...Wearing rubber-soled shoes on the street, I feel that getting old is nothing to fear.

I often wonder, who invented rubber-soled shoes?After much deliberation, he said the panic above.Total bullshit, sorry sorry.
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