All the old houses I looked at today had floors
that sloped in places and threw people off
balance. It was a familiar sensation to me, that
half-falling, the disorientation, the catching. I
wonder if that familiarity would make it safer
for me to live in a house with crooked floors because I
am used to the dizziness and know the tricks not to fall
over. Maybe I would get used to the crooked
houses faster. At least I would have something
to blame when I half-fell and caught myself for
no reason anyone else could see. Unless the crooked
houses multiplied the half-falls into whole falls. Then
again, I'll never know unless I live in one, and it seems
I can't currently afford anything in really livable
condition now. The work injury and the debt it
generated have crippled me more financially
than physically, more than 110+ years have sloped
these floors, more than I care to dwell on while I am
searching for a place to live that isn't here.
23 March 2014
Time to go to bed - searching for a place
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