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When I walk I do not hardly make a sound. If you listen carefully, all you can hear when I walk is the occasional bounce of the aglet off of the side of my shoe.
When I am walking and there are others around me who are walking who are making incessant noise I wonder how much lost energy is entering into my ears. The banging of their heels on the hard floor or the squeak of the wet boots indoors after having come in from the snowy outdoors - these are the most common examples of sounds I hear these days of people walking. Each individual production of noise is a loss of only a few milliwatts, however, over time those add up. More subtle are the sounds of fabric movement or fabric friction.
5 comments:
if not for the aglet, you'd be a ninja. sadly, the aglet will give you away.
When I was in basic training, we all knew the footsteps of our Drill Sergeants by sound alone. None of them walked loudly, either, but boots on hard floors are never completely silent in motion.
I didn't know what an aglet was until I read this. Thank you.
I didn't know what an aglet was either. Maybe you should add this to your list of words you frequently use in your blogs, like fish, kelp and samsonite.
If I am in my ninja uniform, I haven't any aglets.
zhoen, given enough time I too can recognize someone by the sound of their gait.
mesh and deb, it appears that there really is, indeed, a word for everything.
deb, I don't know that aglet is as worthy as those other words - I think it is too specific.
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