In the year 2000 Stephen Fry wrote a book called ‘The Stars’ Tennis Balls’.
A modern day reworking of the Count of Monte Cristo, it’s rather good.
In it, a school boy prank goes horribly wrong, leading to Ned Maddstone being kept in a Swedish psychiatric hospital for 20 years.
He escapes and plots his revenge on those that caused the chain of events that led to his imprisonment and the death of his father who thought Ned was kidnapped due to his job.
In this excerpt, Ned (now going by the name Simon Cotter) enacts his revenge on Rufus, who was one of the boys that initiated the prank.
He’s arranged for a drug deal to go wrong and it to come back on Rufus.
“Cotter went quickly up one flight of stairs and looked down the stairwell as three men came running up to the second floor. He saw a flash of bright silver as one of them transferred a gleaming metal knife from one hand to the other. Inside the flat he heard Rufus still screaming his name, over and over again.
The door slammed shut and all screaming stopped.
Five minutes later the door to the flat opened and the three men emerged. One carrying a black bin-liner. They said nothing as they descended the staircase.
Simon waited for the sound of their car being driven away before he crept down and entered the flat.
Rufus was lying on the floor in a spreading pool of blood that had already reached the extreme edges of the carpet. On the coffee table ten feet away from him, his legs had been neatly laid, one beside the other, like bouquets recently delivered by a florist.”
You can do a lot of damage in 5 minutes you see.
In more way than one.
It takes 20 minutes for the body to register it is full
The average person takes 11 minutes to eat their lunch.
Mathematically impossible to register whether you’ve had enough.
I just asked the wife if she could eat large Dairy Milk in five minutes.
“Huh, yeah” came her reply.
1,056 calories right there.
Throw in a regular bottle of Coke and you’re totalling more like 1,250.
The best part of a daily requirement for some people.
Over half for most.
I’m sure there’s tonnes of other things people have demolished in 5 minutes with similar numbers.
As always, we’re not saying never to have certain foods.
Or to go hungry.
But when you stop and think about what you’re eating………
When you take a bit of time over it………
When you avoid those dangerous 5 minutes where a lot of damage is done for little benefit………
Then you’re taking a big step forward 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Ned does some pretty horrible things to the others too’ Hall and Matt ‘
P.S. I once had a slight disagreement with the wife on tennis and badminton. She says “they are completely different”. I say “they are somewhat similar”. As in darts and synchronised diving are completely different. Sports that both involve a court and hitting something with a racket are “somewhat similar”. What do you think?
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