Expert Advice Offered

...at a Holzminden TV and electronics shop, shortly before purchasing a new set for my parents-in-law in their nursing home.

“...Die trunkenen Fluten enden
Als Fremdes, nicht dein, nicht mein,
Sie lassen dir nichts in Händen
Als der Bilder schweigendes Sein...“

Gottfried Benn, Epilog 1949, I.

(The drunken floods will end
As strange ones, not yours, nor mine,
They leave you empty-handed
Except muted images' being.)