|  |  I was under general anesthesia just recently and 
        now that I'm back, am determined to share with you its uncanny weirdness: 
        It literally clips a piece from the ribbon of your timeline. One second 
        you're listening to the instructions of the anesthesiologist, who's making 
        sure you're calm "going under," the next instant the ribbon 
        of your timeline has been spliced back into the land of the living and 
        you're observing a member of the operating team whisking off your poncho, 
        or whatever they call the operating theater plastic you'd seen them covering 
        your calmly breathing corpse with. I mean, you might as well have been 
        dead in the interim, and are truly lucky they brought you back at all! 
        So here's the way I'm going to share this with you. On the last page you 
        read about the little girl racing into the sea. That was written August 
        16th, 2014. And today, as I write this, the date is March 5th, 2015. You 
        see? You were out a little over six and a half months! |  |