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‘Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.’
There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
‘I stole it to look for a lot of things.’ ‘A lot of things?’ said Ford in surprise. ‘Like what?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘What?’ ‘I don’t know what I’m looking for.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because . . . because . . . I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.’
only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.’
‘we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!’
R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late.
