The Hippopotamus (2017)

Roger Allam: Ted Wallace

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• Rebecca Logan : My God, look at the state of you.

  Ted Wallace : If you're here, Rebecca, who's ruling over Narnia?

• Ted Wallace : Feeling like twelve types of dick, I was suddenly struck by an image of David sprouting wings and flying away. Certainly that would be a miracle worth investigating.

• [first lines] 

  Ted Wallace : [narrating]  T. S. Eliot said that the purpose of literature was to turn blood into ink. Well, I tried that. I published five collections of poetry in eight years and I bled like a hemophiliac. Then, somewhere along the way, the blood finally clotted. Over time, the scab became a scar, and now I can scarcely feel the wound. All the arteries and veins are dried out. I no longer turn blood into ink. These days, I turn whiskey into journalism. I haven't written a poem since 1987.