Involuntary actions of the breath, in the convulsive expiration of air - in sneezing, coughing, yawning, and even hiccuping, seems to provoke anxiety and suspicion. Lisping, as an excess of the breath in speech, is regarded as infantile, incompetent, uncomprehending, and sexual-corporeal. Yeth and I'm omly thixteen. Breathy speech is as it were speech veiled in fleshliness. As long as we remain alive, there is the necessity of the next respiration.
Breathing is the enactment of the essential state of becoming that is being alive.