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July 31 - August 14, 2022
The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.
Mr L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
‘Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.’
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
‘As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.’
Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious,
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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‘You know,’ said Arthur, ‘it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.’ ‘Why, what did she tell you?’ ‘I don’t know, I didn’t listen.’
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
‘I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.’
‘Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
