A glowing orange and violet glass orb rests in a metal stand beside a tiny pale figure.

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Mostly Harmless • 1992

Douglas Adams

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

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Everything you notice, hear or feel belongs only to you, the speaker says, because perceiving something is like building a universe. So each person effectively lives in their own. It's a playful, slightly dizzying take on subjectivity.

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