I tried to be precise, and this was not easy, considering the state I was in. I remembered also that Dr. Coprosich could not tolerate people ignorant of medicine who used medical terminology, as if they knew something about the subject. And when I came to talk about what had seemed to me “cerebral respiration,” he put on his glasses before saying to me: “Go slow with the definitions. We’ll see later what it is.” I had spoken also of my father’s odd behavior, his anxiety to see me, then his haste to go to bed. I didn’t report my father’s strange talk: perhaps I was afraid of being forced to
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