and he walked away from the building , and other men and women who had been inside the building walked with him , and they all had bizarre approaches to walking and the men spread their legs as far as they could , in both length and width , and the women walked on the tips of their toes almost without separating their legs at all overweight ballerinas , and the browncoat paraded his normal walking before them and raced past the men and the women and into the uninterested lights of downtown peterburg .