'Days later… I told a friend, skilled in the art of fung shui, how overwhelmed I had felt by not being able to handle yet another thing gone wrong in my house. "It never ends," I complain. "It seems like constant breakdown."'
'Yes,' he agreed. 'Isn't that the amazing thing about houses? They're so alive.'
–Dominique Browning,
Around the House and in the Garden, (2002), pp. 125