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Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning.
"...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..."
"No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?"
"Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens."
"I can imagine." -
"The mere thought," growled Mr. Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
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A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have
Any man that can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Speech (1998-09), “Is There an Artificial God?”, Digital Biota 2 conference, Cambridge, UKMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/5399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #salmonofdoubt #normalcy #perspective #reality
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Anyone got a copy of The Meaning of Liff? I want to know what the definition of Piddington is. #DouglasAdams
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🧵 More #memories for my project: the #decay of this fabric is perfect for a #collage!
I know from an old photo that once upon a time, baby P. was lying on that towel.
I could embroider a 42 into the hole???#intuitiveArt #intuitiveStitching #stitching #broderie #Sticken #artJournal #mixedMedia #textileArt #AtelierTetebrec #artist #towelDay #collageArt #DouglasAdams
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Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jdp38z4jgo
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689062
#HackerNews #DouglasAdams #DoctorWho #Adventure #BBCNews #SciFi #Culture
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The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig", and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.
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"Come," said Slartibartfast, "you are to meet the mice."
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It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.