Self preservation reflex

There was that line in a story about thinking of the right thing to retort but only thinking of it the next day, or maybe week.  I am not sure I actually come up with that retort.  I am not sure I am able to express those inner feelings in clear and passionate words, and I wonder if it is because of my lack of language skills, or aptitude, or is it because I don't really have those inner feelings, except, perhaps, the self-preservation reflex.

That is tired
And so, perhaps, there is no point in trying to work out how this can be fixed.  It...

November 23
Wrapping the blanket about me is a comfort but not as much as the heating, for it is...