I have taken the quilt from my bed to a commercial laundromat, because once wet from washing, its sodden weight would reduce my home Maytag to rubbish. At the laundromat I put it into a washing machine called a Huebsch Originator, which seems like an odd name for a washing machine. Odder still is the (manufacturer’s?) name on the coin mechanism: Airpak. When you get back from Google, you’ll see what I mean.
The dryer, which name I didn’t write down, is a front loader. As the quilt spins in the dryer, it arranges itself so that it looks like the arms of a spiral galaxy, with a bunch of quilt in the center and two quilt extremities flung out in curves. It’s become a two-armed spiral entity due to the same principle that makes spiral galaxies of the stellar variety. That has to count for something, although the big galaxies are not, to our knowledge, coin-operated.
