"Well, it makes everything take longer. Uncomfortable for the subject. But it doesn’t change anything; the machine gets it done just the same. You go all the way to the end and you find the thread of real life again, just waiting to be picked up. It’s an hour’s delay and it’s effortful for the patient. Tidy-up can be a bit higgledy-piggledy after that, neurally speaking, or so I hear. Not really supposed to be my field, that bit. Sloshy grey stuff. I do the silicon."