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June 13, 2023 - January 29, 2024
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds,
He wished the dark, locked off section of his two brains would go away because they occasionally surfaced momentarily and put strange thoughts into the light, fun sections of his mind and tried to deflect him from what he saw as being the basic business of his life, which was to have a wonderfully good time.
“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true.
am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
“So, how are you?” he said aloud. “Oh, fine,” said Marvin, “if you happen to like being me, which personally I don’t.”
“You know something?” said Zaphod to Marvin. “More than you can possibly imagine.”
“If I ever meet myself,” said Zaphod, “I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.”
“I am here,” said the voice slowly. “My body wanted to come but it’s a bit busy at the moment. Things to do, people to see.” After what seemed like a sort of ethereal sigh it added, “You know how it is with bodies.”
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.
At that moment another dismal scream rent the air and Zaphod shuddered. “What can do that to a guy?” he breathed. “The Universe,” said Gargravarr simply, “the whole infinite Universe.
He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones.
“What’s that number you do?” he said, unwisely grabbing at a bottle for support and tipping it over—into a nearby glass as it happened. Not to waste a happy accident, he drained the glass.
“A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good,” it said. “I’ll just nip off and shoot myself.”
“Yes,” called out the sort of people who call out “yes” when comedians ask them if they’re having a wonderful time.
“I wonder who this ship belongs to anyway,” said Arthur. “Me,” said Zaphod. “No. Who it really belongs to.” “Really me,” insisted Zaphod. “Look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, Okay?”
His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin. And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
“Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”
