I got out of bed and went out to the other room and sat on the couch and turned on the TV to the business news channel, where the analysts were talking about it in a predictable way, by which I mean with phrases and expressions the gist of which I recognized and understood, even if I couldn’t have known what they were going to say until they’d said it. One of the cats jumped up on the couch and climbed onto my lap and started purring.