“it appeared that a streamer machine had vomited everywhere”

“Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]”

“The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.”

“The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine designated classification:Hero.These damn machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds.”

“The streamers of my consciousness waver out and are perpetually torn and distressed by their disorder.”

“The one Jack had picked up was clearly of the flower/nature variety if he was vomiting foliage.”