A glass marble with an eye-like center resting on dark cracked paving.

Original artwork, not a still

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish  ·  1984

Douglas Adams

All eyes were on Ford. Some were on stalks.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The first sentence sounds like an ordinary description of everyone paying attention to Ford. The second suddenly makes the eyes literal and strange by placing some on stalks. That small afterthought changes the imagined audience, turning a familiar expression into an unexpected physical detail.

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