:02:02
The driver laughed. That was all he said.
:02:04
The taxi pulled away.
:02:34
Have you got a light?
:03:21
The day started quietly enough.
Then I got out of bed.
:03:25
That was my first mistake.
:03:27
My second was
to try and get from here... to here.
:03:31
That's how it all began.
:03:33
That bizarre adventure
which put five in the cemetery,
:03:36
and ruled me out
as a customer for laxatives.
:03:39
At the time, I was living abroad.
:03:42
I was a writer,
having three years before left London
:03:45
and a lucrative job as a funeral director.
:03:51
It was my wife's family business,
:03:53
whom I'd deserted
with my three children.
:03:55
Handling stiffs
wasn't the life for someone
:03:58
with a burning creative urge.