Are You Choking?

"I was internally commanded as if the father and Kafka's the judgment had screamed, I condemn you to death by drowning," he writes. "As adrenaline flooded my body I no longer felt compelled to keep my secret quietly at the table instead I felt compelled to get out of the restaurant as quickly as possible." The question 'are you choking?' haunted him because paradoxically the only true way to answer in the affirmative is to be incapable of answering at all. It comforting me during the night we spent in the ER because Astra was wheezing or more recently when she fell down the stairs in our building and was fine,. but the whole time she was falling, head over heels, e