A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark,\nmakes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he\nrummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy\nhim. Here is mid- life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer\nbrilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in\nthe twinkling of an eye. This is Baker at his best, humorous and\nobservant, revealing the underlying truths about the ephemerality\nof life, the joy of small things, the darkness just the other side\nof everyday life - all human life in a box of matches.

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