Poignant poems describe dolls without children, shoes without feet, "sounds glimmering like burnt pearls" and "midnight's black flour".
They are women without feet or turned upside down or big-hipped and multiarmed women resembling the goddesses of the Hindu pantheon but covered in iconic Muslim veils.
"You had people laying on the floor, gushing -- people without feet," said Aaron Pilchik, 19, one of those who helped the injured.
Longer term, it no longer seems lunacy to believe in the possibility of "meat without feet" — meat produced in vitro, by growing animal cells in a super-rich nutrient environment before being further manipulated into burgers and steaks.
Its entries range from Japanese ghosts to a handsome cross-section of a Victorian home afflicted with poltergeists, and the tone is authoritative if always tongue in cheek: "To see a ghost move swiftly across the floor without feet will be disquieting.
It's like how eyes cannot walk without feet, but feet cannot see without eyes.
Without feet on the ground, Alison Johnston, CEO and co-founder of InstaEDU will be able to focus on getting faces on webcams.
It is true that football would be impossible without feet, but the feeling it inspires long ago left feet behind - even Frank Lampard's.
