The Big Toe
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Big Toe is an essay by French philosopher Georges Bataille first published in Documents (1929, issue 6) with photos by Boiffard.
- The human foot is commonly subjected to grotesque tortures that deform it and make it rachitic. It is stupidly consecrated to corns, calluses, and bunions, and if one takes into account turns of phrase that are only now disappearing, to the most loathsome filthiness: the peasant expression ‘her hands are as dirty as feet,’ is no longer as true of the entire human collectivity as it was in the 17th century. http://www.markdery.com/archives/psychopathia_sexualis/000049.html
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