: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.
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That's how it all began.
:03:33
That bizarre adventure
which put five in the cemetery,
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and ruled me out
as a customer for laxatives.
:03:39
At the time, I was living abroad.
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I was a writer,
having three years before left London
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and a lucrative job as a funeral director.
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It was my wife's family business,
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whom I'd deserted
with my three children.
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Handling stiffs
wasn't the life for someone
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with a burning creative urge.
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So, I elbowed the loved ones.
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I left some tapes here for transcription.
The name is King.
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- In English?
- Preferably.
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Please, you wait.
:04:39
The writer's life
would be ideal but for the writing.
:04:42
That was a problem I had to overcome.
:04:44
Then, I read in the Guinness Book of Records
about Earl Stanley Gardner,
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the world's fastest novelist,
who dictates up to 10,000 words a day.
:04:53
That was for me. None of that
romantic stuff with a typewriter.
:04:57
I had better uses for those two particular fingers.