Experience: I was swallowed by a hippo “There was no transition at all, no sense of approaching danger. It was as if I had suddenly gone blind and deaf” A few years ago, she thought, that story would have made a sensation. It would have been all anybody talked about for weeks: the sudden breach, the tooth of a new reality against the rib cage, the greeny-black smell of being lost in some ultimate aquarium. But now they had all been swallowed by a hippo. Big deal. That’s life.
