The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“"You look as if you've bad a crash of some sort.""Yes," said Dirk."Thought so," said the driver and drove on."You don't get the same quality of passers-by these days, do you?" said Dirk to Kate."You get hit by some real dogs, too," said Kate. "I still want to know why you were following me. You realise that it's hard for me not to see you in the role of an extremely sinister sort of a person.""That's easily explained," said Dirk. "Usually I am. On this occasion, however, I simply got lost. I was forced to take evasive action by a large grey oncoming van which took a proprietorial view of the road. I only avoided it by nipping down a side lane in which I was then unable to reverse. A few turnings later nnd I was thoroughly lost. There is a school of thought which says that you should consult a map on these occasions, but to such people I merely say, `Ha! What if you have no map to consult? What if you have a map but it's of the Dordogne?' My own strategy is to find a car, or the neares...t equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it.MoreLess
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