“Shut up,” she said, “and write down exactly what she says, in her words, including the parts that don’t make sense.”

I had that in my head for fourteen years and had used it perhaps six times.

On the ninth of April I used it properly, once, for about eleven minutes, and it is the reason a man is where he is.

That is the whole of my contribution to this story.

I did not investigate anything.

I did not solve anything.