‚You see he was mad. He believed he was nine people at the same time.‘

‚Must have made life very difficult for him.‘

‚It certainly did. Particularly as one of the people was Ethel Barrymore and another Harpo Marx.‘

‚Were most of them film stars?‘

‚Directors as well. He’d been a script-writer you see.‘

‚Enough to drive anyone off his rocker,‘ I said, remembering my own experience.

‚Exactly,‘ the ATS agreed.

– Julian MacLaren-Ross (‚The Nine Men of Soho‘ in Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing)