Cause and Effect
From the Inundation Department. Sitting in a coffee shop one afternoon, I saw a young woman feeding her infant inattentively while she chatted away with a gaggle of friends. Meanwhile, the six-month-old was waving her hands and feet in what I took to be furious indications of satiation. Lying on her back in her stroller, bottle propelled into her mouth, I could only imagine her sense of desperation.
