life the universe and everything

January 30, 2021 by achrilock

“They flew out of the cloud.
They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.
For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.
‘It’ll have to go,’ the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/30/7165/

December 30, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Do it badly,’ said the man. ‘Who cares? Who gives a swut?’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/30/6139/

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/

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/

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/