No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives…

Douglas Adams
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No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.42, Pan Macmillan
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