Not since Cinderella's stepsisters mutilated their feet to squeeze into that glass slipper have women leveled such fierce desire at footwear.
In this case, foot binding, the old Chinese custom of mutilating the feet of aristocratic girls, is a kind of metaphor for the child abuse and incest chronicled by Ms. Harrison in that earlier book -- a metaphor for the sort of childhood trauma that persists throughout an individual's life, warping emotional reflexes and leaving behind a permanent sense of otherness and alienation.
Sweat streamed down Roy's uncle's face as he worked, cutting evenly as he progressed from neck to tail, taking particular care not to mutilate the feet.
She reports: "A lost child lies deep within the ashes, her hands and feet mutilated, her face destroyed by fire.
Since that time, however, people in the West have seen Qu's feet, mutilated by frostbite, and experts have reexamined the 1960 photos and film many now believe that Qu, Wang Fuzhou, Liu Lianman, and the Tibetan, Konbu, did indeed reach the summit on May 25 , 1960
Small hounds are mentioned in the Forest Laws of Canute which exempted them from the ordinance which commanded that all dogs capable of running down a stag should have one foot mutilated.
Nails and shrapnel, mixed in with the explosives, mutilated anyone within 20 feet of these two exploding human bombs.
The bodies appeared to have been mutilated, and their hands were tied to their feet.
Only 983 (84.5%) mutilated participants remembered who performed mutilation for them.
Fresh from Spectrum we see quadcopters free-falling from 4,000 feet where they are rent, destroyed, and otherwise mutilated by Lady Gravity.
