You know that slap-stick act, especially in cartoons; someone gets hung upside down and shaken, all shorts of things falling out of their clothes and other places too.

If your brain was turned upside down and shaken, I’d be scrambling for anything I could get my hands on.

Oh, the first paragraph reminds me of someone who lives in an iron lung. Usually they were allowed out daily for only a short period of time.

Though the following image shows these in a hospital setting, they were in homes too. It has to do with polio.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Iron_lungs.JPG/1280px-Iron_lungs.JPG

What a startling photograph! Thanks for sharing – I suppose that something of the sort was in the back of my mind when I wrote that opening.

Ah, he froze time. At first I thought it was a more Kafka-esque moment, but this is cool too. Fun stuff and nicely, even poetically told.