I dreamt that I got into the back of a gray Plymouth Voyager van and lay down on the floor in the cargo space. Later in the dream, I saw a 4chan post that looked like a few panels from an American-style comic book with a fairly realistic art style. It showed a dark-haired man in his early twenties (i.e., not me) running down the street, getting into the back of a gray Plymouth Voyager van, and lying down on the floor in the cargo space. All of the replies focused on the man's shoes.
american brownshoewhy is he wearing shoes from the 50s?he got it right thoyes.this is the correct shoe for the 20th and 21st centuries
I hadn't even noticed the shoes until I read the replies. They were leather shoes with thick rubber soles, something like Doc Martens 1491s, but instead of the usual black they were brown with white soles.
Upon waking, I connected this with Pete the Cat from "Fools and wise men on hills, planetary shoon, and a literal Blueberry Hill" (January 16). Pete's originally white shoes become brown when he steps in a mud puddle, and then they are washed white again when he steps in a bucket of water. If the water in the bucket had been very shallow -- or if he had only walked on the surface of it, like his biblical namesake -- the soles would have been washed white, while the rest of the shoes remained brown.
Actually, checking the book again now, I see that even when Pete's shoes are brown, the soles are still white, which makes no sense. Obviously the soles would be the first part to get muddy if you stepped in a mud puddle.
Perhaps a bit of punning symbolism? No matter what Pete steps in, his "soul" remains pure?
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