The play begins with a long sequence where the characters are tossing a coin to fill time.
As if to clinch the point, Reid directs me to the key metaphor in the book's first sequence, The Flowers of Crete, in which the seemingly unvanquishable Cretan minotaur is a metaphor for Lucinda's indestructible sarcoma.
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Allin's culpability follows a more obvious sequence of cause and effect.
The Syfy version has a extending-snout, retracted-teeth sequence in it's first two minutes.
They have also hit a pleasing rich vein of late-season form since being turned over in spectacular style at Old Trafford: five wins on the bounce, a sequence which has included impressive wins at Tottenham and Swansea, plus a six-goal humiliation of QPR.
Discard notions of dimly-lit, smoke and truant-filled rooms: the NVA recasts the once-grotty arcade as a bright, breezy sequence of rooms, equal parts art gallery, museum exhibit and educational centre.
The programme's presenter, Professor Kathy Sykes, ended the sequence by saying: "The stories are really moving but.. I need to find evidence that's more solid than this".
A sequence which featured acupuncture being used instead of general anaesthetic during open heart surgery in China was alleged to be misleading by "underplaying" the use of drugs which were also administered.
Always a contrived fiction, this sequence juxtaposes a poignant fantasy of a fully fit presenter with the merciless world of hard news.
As of last weekend, Curzon is now warning viewers: "Following the Germanwings flight incident on Tuesday 24th March, please be aware that Wild Tales features a sequence that some customers might find disturbing".
