Those two plane crashes in Africa, one of them,
he had to bang the door open
with his head.
If you drink, with a concussion, it damages
your brain. People
said he was not the same
after those two accidents. He changed. He wasn't
operating
with the same equipment. Playing with a full deck.
Of course, the FBI were
after him. That didn't help. And he was
failing by degrees, physically.
He'd always been a robust specimen.
Now he was getting practically feeble. These
changes are hard on
an active man. A man of action. A guy who hunts and fishes,
walks
the fields, skis with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper.
Gets in fistfights. Drinks
to the bottom of the bowl.
To the drains. His brains were circling.
It was
a haggis pudding in there.
Pudding from boudin, or blood sausage.