douglas adams

“‘Ah yes,’ he said, ‘that’s to do with the day I finally realized that the world had gone totally mad and built the Asylum to put it in, poor thing, and hoped it would get better.’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/04/09/17028/

“‘Oh,’ said Arthur, vaguely. ‘Um, I always feel a bit bad about foie gras. Bit cruel to the geese, isn’t it?’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/03/23/16606/

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https://achrilock.com/2022/02/27/15948/

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https://achrilock.com/2022/02/26/15907/

“This is a remarkable replica, hand-tooled by skilled craftsmen, lovingly assembled using ancient craft secrets into a memento you will be proud to own, in memory of those who fell, and in tribute to the Galaxy—our Galaxy—which they died to defend…”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/01/06/14819/

“Bit cruel to the geese, isn’t it?”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/25/13767/

“Every moment of every day. Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don’t notice. Some we do.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/18/13616/

“If we’d known about Rupert three years ago, might President Hudson have been eating the chocolate flavor on Thursday rather than Friday? Might Damascus still be standing?”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/05/13366/

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly for ever.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/08/12801/

“Meanwhile, fresh reports of UFO activity were coming in…”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/18/12467/

“‘The evidence,’ he said, pointing at himself, and not missing by more than a couple of inches, ‘is before your eyes. Fourteen hours in a trance,’ he said, ‘in a tank. In a trance. I was in a tank. I think,’ he added after a thoughtful pause, ‘I already said that.’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/08/19/11972/

“‘So in order to obviate this problem,’ he continued, ‘and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and… er, burn down all the forests. I think you’ll all agree that’s a sensible move under the circumstances.’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/08/14/11865/

“‘A lot of them didn’t make it through the winter three years ago,’ he said, ‘and the few who remained in the spring said they needed a holiday and set off on a raft. History says that they must have survived.…’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/26/11594/