douglas adams

October 25, 2020 by achrilock

“If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/25/4578/

October 3, 2020 by achrilock

“The Lalamatine district is one of those very few areas which doesn’t enjoy a perpetual Saturday afternoon–it enjoys instead the cool of a perpetual early Saturday evening. Behind it lie the nightclubs.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/03/3977/

September 22, 2020 by achrilock

“‘I mean, what’s six times seven?’
Zaphod looked at him hard for a moment. Then his eyes blazed with excitement.
‘Forty-two!’ he cried.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/22/3622/

September 19, 2020 by achrilock

“What else was pleasant? he asked himself. Well, so many things; the red and gold of the trees, now that autumn was approaching; the peaceful chatter of scissors a few feet from his bath where a couple of hairdressers were exercising their skills on a dozing art director and his assistant; the sunlight gleaming off the six shiny telephones lined up along the edge of his rock-hewn bath. The only thing nicer than a phone that didn’t ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn’t ring all the time (or indeed at all).”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/19/3541/

September 11, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Now, let us bow our heads in payment,’ intoned the voice, and then said it again, much faster and backward.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/11/3325/

September 11, 2020 by achrilock

“Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one—more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Coluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/11/3316/

September 6, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,’ said Ford, ‘the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/06/3198/

August 28, 2020 by achrilock

“The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/28/2917/

August 14, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Hi,’ he said again. Everyone beamed at him, or at least, nearly everyone.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/14/2419/

July 18, 2020 by achrilock

“‘This is the police! Clear the way!’
‘Scientific equipment! Clear the way!’
‘Police! Let us through!’
‘Walkmen!’ yelled Ford, and pulled half a dozen miniature tape players from his pockets and tossed them into the crowd.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/18/1660/

July 12, 2020 by achrilock

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/12/1504/

July 12, 2020 by achrilock

“He had just been brought an entire golfing magazine by a squirrel, as well, and his brain was beginning to howl and gibber.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/12/1499/

July 11, 2020 by achrilock

“For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said ‘Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts make a very good meal for visiting tourists’ instead of ‘Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists’), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, 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. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening’s ultragolf.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/11/1479/