Tilt!

Since my teens (possibly even before that, but the facts get lost in the gauze of time) I have occasionally fallen over. Often publicly. The first time I remember was in gym class, where I turned to a classmate, said, “I feel like I’m gonna–” and did, coming to a minute later to see the faces of all three of the school’s gym teachers very close to mine, and to hear the“what happened?”of 40 15-year-old girls echoing like the cries of maddened seagullsin my ears. Since then, my public swoons...