The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
A plane to San Francisco, 25 years ago. There was a bang and I looked out of the window and saw flames coming out of one of the engines. We zoomed down to the airport below.
I had some gynaecological issues that were very sudden, about 18 months ago, and felt that I might be dying. I wasn’t but it was quite serious.
Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
One handsome dude.
Shucking oysters one summer in Nice.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
People not remembering who I am.
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
A pearl diver in Japan.
Tom Lubbock, Scott Mills, Elaine Paige, Noah Harari, Gloria Steinem, Paul O'Grady
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