Broken Feet

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Original Post: October 15, 2026

I find it exceedingly apparent that it is often the case that the crippled and the afflicted are the first to see the first steps towards a collectively better future; and indeed the ones with the thirst to pursue it.

Ilya Repin, Hunchback, 1881 oil study of a young hunchbacked pilgrim leaning on a crutch, State Tretyakov Gallery
Ilya Repin, Hunchback, 18811

It is often the case that the person who takes the first step is the one whose feet are broken.

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Footnotes

  1. Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian, 1844–1930), Hunchback (Горбун), 1881, oil on canvas; a study for Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate (1880–1883). State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Public domain; image via Wikimedia Commons. ↩︎

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