After enduring this siege of afflictions, I seem to be accident prone generally. For instance, a sharp-edged Christmas-tree ornament flew off the tree and narrowly missed me, embedding itself fairly deeply into the floor and perpendicular to it. If it had gone into me instead of the floor, there would have been some difficulties explaining to the emergency-services people. K. witnessed the close escape; I know only that it took a bit of effort to withdraw it from the floor and that there are two marks left in the wood.