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[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could understand what went though the bowl of petunias’ mind when it thought ‘not again’ though…

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just read about this! The bowl of petunias was an incarnation of Agrajag. "Not again" referred to being killed by Arthur. Again.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're referring to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Specifically, they're talking about a creature (the bowl of petunias created high above the surface of an airless world as a byproduct of a star drive powered by improbability) who has reincarnated many, many times, but in every life is killed by an otherwise inoffensive and constantly bewildered British man.