As I [the universe] was saying, I had no idea what to expect before the beginning, so to speak. Perhaps it really went floof, woosh, bang. Or bang, woosh, floof. Or even woosh, floof, bang. You know how permutations go.
1975, Paul West, “The Universe, and other Fictions”, in J[ames] Laughlin, Peter Glassgold, Frederick R. Martin, editors, New Directions in Prose and Poetry 31, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, page 107