Last Chance To See

by Douglas Adams

‘You’re proposing twenty hours on a boat …’ ‘A small boat,’ added Mark. ‘On violently heaving seas …’ ‘Probably.’ ‘With a three-day-old dead goat.’ ‘Yes.’

When we told our guide that we didn’t want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don’t want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists.

there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you’ve been introduced to socially.