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Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany’s by Marian Keyes Cover detail Photogrph: Getty Images |
“The bellhops seem particularly delighted by his makeover. Or perhaps it is just that he is wearing leather shoes for once: topsiders, which he’s always thought of as the mark of effete preppies, but which are actually a reasonable thing for him to wear today. ”
Neal StephensonCryptonomicon (Avon, 1999)
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| Sperry Topsiders |
“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
Neal StephensonCryptonomicon (Avon, 1999)
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| Adidas Kobe II |