#douglasadams — Public Fediverse posts
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
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A tremendous feeling of peace came over him. He knew that at last, for once and for ever, it was now all, finally, over.
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"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce...
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce...
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce...
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce...
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I love September because the whole month is Someone Else's Problem
Nothing to see here, please move along
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Hey @BorrisInABox Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 (public)
"This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot
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Obviously the subject of death was in the air, but more as something to be avoided than harped upon.
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate! -
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
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The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
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The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
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The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
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The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 6 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30235/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #dodo #extinction #folly #information #regret #wisdom
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 11 [Arthur] (1984)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82214/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #adult #humannature #maturity #precedent #principle #realworld #reality #selfimage #truth
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Happy Geek Pride Day![1]
So don't forget your towel.[2]
Wear a lilac and do so with pride, to remember the people's glorious revolution![3]
And may the Force be with you, too![4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)#The_Glorious_Twenty-Fifth_of_May
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day#May_25
#GeekPrideDay #DouglasAdams #Towelday #Terrypratchett #Gloriousrevolution #StarWars #StarWarsDay
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This Holy Trinity is giving Zaphod Beeblebrox vibes! A third head certainly seems useful..
Morgan Library m558, fol. 5
Italian psalter, 2nd half of 15th century#art #medievalart #medieval #illumination #illuminatedmanuscript #Buchmalerei #holytrinity #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #scifi @medievodons
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Time for a #FollowFriday
If you like:
#scifi #cyberpunk #Paranormal & #Fantasy #MysteryBooks & #Thrillers and #Authors who write them
#DoctorWho #StarTrek #Space1999 #GerryAnderson and a host of other great scifi shows
#DouglasAdams #Tolkien #PhilipKDick #RobertEHoward & countless other similar authors
#Dogs #RescueDogs #Photography
#LeftyPolitics #Left #Fairness
Then you may want to #follow me 😀
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@albinokid I also love the work of #UrsulaKLeGuin. So much that when I transitioned, I took my last name, Gethen, from her book The Left Hand of Darkness. (I'm #nonbinary, so it seemed fitting.)
My other favorite authors include: