douglas adams

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/

July 5, 2020 by achrilock

“‘... fine weather for the concert here this afternoon. I’m standing here in front of the stage,’ the reporter lied, ‘in the middle of the Rudlit Desert, and with the aid of hyperbinoptic glasses I can just about make out the huge audience cowering there on the horizon all around me. Behind me the speaker stacks rise like a sheer cliff face, and high above me the sun is shining away and doesn’t know what’s going to hit it. The environmentalist lobby do know what’s going to hit it, and they claim that the concert will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, irreparable damage to the atmosphere and all the usual things the environmentalists usually go on about.’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/05/1308/

June 27, 2020 by achrilock

“You said you wanted excitement and adventure and really wild things.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/27/1037/

June 26, 2020 by achrilock

“‘What,’ said Trillian in a small quiet voice, ‘does sundive mean?’
‘It means,’ said Marvin, ‘that the ship is going to dive into the sun. Sun...Dive. It’s very simple to understand. What do you expect if you steal Hotblack Desiato’s stuntship?’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/26/1013/

June 12, 2020 by achrilock

“We may need to photograph you under a garden shower, but that’ll be okay.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/12/638/

June 10, 2020 by achrilock

“Eventually they realized that this was something they were going to have to sort out, and they passed a law decreeing that anyone who had to carry a weapon as part of his normal Silastic work (policemen, security guards, primary school teachers, etc.) had to spend at least forty-five minutes every day punching a sack of potatoes in order to work off his or her surplus aggression.
For a while this worked well, until someone thought that it would be much more efficient, and less time-consuming if they just shot the potatoes instead.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, The Universe and Everything’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/10/591/

June 6, 2020 by achrilock

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/06/494/

May 24, 2020 by achrilock

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/24/167/

May 23, 2020 by achrilock

“He headed to the outer Eastern rim of the Galaxy, where, it was said, wisdom and truth were to be found, most particularly on the planet Hawalius, which was a planet of oracles and seers and soothsayers and also take-out pizza parlors, because most mystics were completely incapable of cooking for themselves.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/23/105/