One doesn't expect unheimlich from Golden Age writers and then one starts reading Mitchell.

Oh, I have house slippers and of course they'd help with the tiny owies. (I mean, breadcrumbs? Just how princess and the pea can my feet get? especially when I have to keep pumicing them to keep the callouses in line) It's just that my balance is better in bare feet so I default to that. No matter. It will be sock weather soon enough.