Concur: it's a really cool conceit, and I thought it was interesting that we used only 1 bennie through three vignettes, and "realistically" fled the last one, as if we could actually have died (when our reserve of 5 bennies would probably have been enough for all kinds of crazy "No, I remember it *this* way...").
"It is all very well to point out that the man lacks facility; as he asserts, sheer force can overpower sophistication."
Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous