There were dozens of these effigies, borne by crawling men in their teens or early twenties.
But the following afternoon, as the time for the Rosary drew near and worshippers pressed more and more tightly into the narrow street where the shrine is situated, one crawling young man said that he was praying for his ex-girlfriend, who lived in another state, to let him see his five-month-old daughter.
Still crawling, the man entered the intersection when traffic was stopped, Lorenz said.
After all, it was Walt Whitman who described lobbyists as "crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combings and born freedom sellers of the earth".
The street is crawling with men drunk enough to run into me, hard.
Out of the violent Chilean jungle crawls a man with a magical paste.
If the day comes when the slime of the laboratory for the first time crawls under man's direction, we shall have great need of humbleness.
"We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud, just to survive another day".
We are in a world in which man, crawling on the Earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud, just to survive another day". Our planet is shrinking, we are told.
By the early 1990s it had blossomed, according to Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer of the Luggage Store, a San Francisco nonprofit gallery, to encompass artfully spray-painted portrayals of struggling humanity, like crawling, sad-eyed men.
