I. 

The actual beginning.... though it's not really the beginning .. but the actual ...
ah... “flashpoint” was... I remember very clearly... I can even... mmm...
I took... uhm... I can see still the corner ... ah ... in the... in my house... in
[address]

...I've got an enormous pile of exam papers there... and... uh... it mmm....
... marking school examinations in the summertime is a ... is a....
an enormous... uh... [tsk] ... it's very laborious!
And unfortunately also boring!

And I remember picking up a paper and actually, if I...
I nearly gave an extra mark for it... an extra five marks, actually...
there was one... page of this... particular paper that was left BLANK!
Glorious!   Nothing to read!
So I scribbled on it – I can't think why --

“In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit...”