Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t know, but I am quite happy returning to the universe.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗
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Diana Athill
Editor and memoirist
The contributor to the programme I remember with the most pleasure is the man who said that not existing for thousands and thousands of years before his birth had never worried him for a moment, so why should going back into non-existence at this death cause him dismay? Everyone laughed when he said that and so did I, and as I laughed I thought: “Dead right!”
I have lots of beliefs about that, but that will have to wait for another interview.
I think our kids take our stuff!
More from Niamh Cusack
View profile →Never making it into a Sondheim musical.
Things change.
Ulysses (I’ve only read the good bits).
Being caught having an emergency pee in the Cotswolds by two unsuspecting walkers.
A saint. Then a ballerina.
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
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