the call had not truly occurred at all. The feelings – the comfort, the peace, the warmth; the tears – they were all real, and still present; but the voice I heard was only a recollection from memory; and the conversation, a product of my imagination, constructed by stubborn hopes ...
the first thing in her line of sight is the 11/3 arrow (the “debt limit is hit” date), and the second thing is the 11/5 arrow (the “we’re out of cash and in default” date). So Alice is there to show us ...