the choice

It was a long way down the rabbit hole for Alice in Wonderland in her journey through a fantasy world with anthropomorphic characters.  Most of us by now know how that fairy tale goes.  Then there are the true tales of long and painful marches and rides through what feels more like falling into a black hole.  There is no white rabbit with a fob watch, but a terrifying doctor in his white robe whose nickname in German translates as the angel of…