Twenty years ago, I spent an afternoon shuffling around Rocks In Your Head, a record store that once did business on Prince Street.
Just how he'd picked it out with the naked eye was magical by itself, but, sure enough, a large male bear came lazily into view, munching leaves and shuffling behind rocks, before presumably getting a sniff of a female and moving purposefully downhill.
Poofy white hair, hunched back, crinkly skin, paunchy stomachs, shuffling feet, rocking chairs, goodie-basket-carrying "old" ladies...the pictures continued.
Badgerina shuffles about, rocking Filled With Satan as we slip past a narrowboat - the last we'll see for a while - and glancing nervously at an exuberant Newfoundland dog romping down the towpath after us.
We see them first as a rocking, shuffling huddle of displaced humanity, uniformly dressed in grey, but as they begin to journey in search of safety, Pite brings life to the group.
Also, I love books, words, imagination, green tea, dark chocolate, la lingua italiana, touching sun-warmed rocks, shuffling through autumn leaves.
The first 25 to 30 minutes introduce Wall-E as a Buster Keaton-meets-E.T. figure, comically rocking and shuffling.
