I took off for Norway soon afterwards because I thought that would be a good peaceful place to write my diatribe. But, I had a series of accidents one after the other, gradually getting more and more serious. One of them, which shook me up a good deal and could have been the end of me, was when I lost an oar... I’d rowed out on the fjord, on Hardangerfjord, and I lost an oar, but I somehow made my way back with one oar. And then, the next day, I climbed the mountain, and... I don’t know how much of the story I told. The next day I started out for a little mountain climbing. I saw a notice at the bottom of the mountain which as far as I could construe, it said beware of the bull, and it also had a little jolly cartoon of a man being tossed by a bull. I thought of this as a sort of Norwegian sense of humour, you know how they are in Scandinavia.  How could you have a bull on a... on a mountain, or any livestock on a mountain?

So I... I was strong and energetic then, and I used my gymnasium-trained strength to... to ascend the mountain and climb up the mountain. At first I... I was a little apprehensive that I might meet the bull, and then I dismissed this from my mind, a lot of nonsense, but... but it wasn’t a lot of nonsense. And I came, sort of, nonchalantly, and gaily, and swingingly, round one boulder, one big boulder, and found myself face-to-face with a bull sitting on the path, face-to-face, snout-to -snout. I... terror is... is too mild a word for what I felt, and... and the sight of this, and the feeling of it, induced a sort of hallucination. The bull’s face seemed to expand until I could see nothing else. But then, very daintily, as if I just decided to end my walk at that point, I turned round and descended the path. But then, alas, my nerve broke, panic took over me, and I started to run on this icy muddy mountain path, and faster because I heard heavy, thudding hooves, and heavy breathing behind me, or I thought I did, it was probably my own breathing, and my own thudding, and then suddenly, I don’t know how it happened, I was at the bottom of a cliff with my left leg twisted grotesquely underneath me.