What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and ask you, ‘are you?’ Not ‘what are you?’ or ‘who are you?’ but simply: are you? It would force you to confront the most basic mystery of being. Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘Yes, I am!’ My writing grapples with what it means to answer ‘Yes, I am!’, exploring the ancient philosophical quandaries that modern technology has unearthed and how to live meaningfully in existence’s chaos, absurdity, and beauty.