“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
Which gives me yet another excuse to relate that when my new American wife and I moved back to UK in ’88, we had to buy all new 240v stuff, including a cylinder vacuum with a sticker that said “Nothing sucks like an Electrolux”…
“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide