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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that...”
– Douglas Adams (via onceuponathought) (via fuckyeahdouglasadams) (via growingup)
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the...”
– Douglas Adams (via somethingintellectual) (via growingup) (via jaicentans)
“Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings...”
– Douglas Adams (via loveyourchaos) (via growingup)
September 2009
11 posts
scamper:
Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide book | Books | guardian.co.uk
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Comic fantasy children’s author describes being given the opportunity to continue Douglas Adams’s legendary series as ‘like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice’
Deeply mixed feelings on this. H2G2 is like the bible, only slightly less improbable. Hm. #prose...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Book: It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet and since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought, as it fell:
The Whale: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!
[dies]
The Book: Curiously 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.
“I shouldn’t be so upset because life goes on and I should go on with it.”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via filmquotes) (via cassket)
“My head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via rennervate)
August 2009
14 posts
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it...”
– Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. (via maxwellington)
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
– Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via corners)
“It wasn’t infinity, in fact infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting....”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(via bellybuttonsmiles)
“‘If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what...”
– Douglas Adams (via pockethazard) (via fuckyeahdouglasadams) (via potterhead) (via monpetitsecret)
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
– Douglas Adams (via ihatepigeons)
July 2009
43 posts
“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (via geometricity)
“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy’s a fun place....”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via lifeitself)
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...”
– Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (via mynameisfluffybunnyslippers)
