Arthur and I were born in the same hospital. He asked me if I knew which room exactly I was born in. He sipped his cheap coffee and put a song on the jukebox called "Palingenesis." I ate a certain nightshade flower and fell asleep but when I fell asleep I woke up. I located an 8mm tape supposed to contain footage of my birth and watched it in the viewfinder of a camera. It started at the end so I rewound it. I saw ashes put into an incinerator and come out as a heart. I saw price tags removed from the arms, legs, torso, then the limbs rejoined and the organs replaced. I watched the body being put back into the backseat of a car, and a bullet leaving the head. I stood up and walked backwards out of the car. It didn't take long to get to the start. But it was impossible to watch because of distortion. "After your death you will be what you were before your birth," Arthur said. So I fastforwarded through to the end again...until it faded out and there was black for a long period. Then there was static; a hospital came into view, a door, a number.