One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Oh no, not again.

"What's up?"
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."

Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.

He paused and maneuvered his thoughts. It was like watching oil tankers doing three-point turns in the English Channel.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. ..."And that was with a coffee machine."

"Why are we surrounded by squirrels, and what do they want?"
"I've been pestered by squirrels all night," said Arthur. "They keep on trying to give me magazines and stuff."

There's all sort of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about...
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

“I don’t want to die now! I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!”

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

In the Deep South of Canberra, the sun never appeared today - high fog/low cloud is still haunting the area and the sun has apparently now set. Now I understand how the inhabitants of the planet Cricket felt.

It got up to a staggeringly high of 5.6 degrees while feeling like about one degree. Thankfully, there was no wind, or it would have been even worse.

I wonder if we will see the sun tomorrow.

#CanberraWinter
#DouglasAdams
#HitchhikersGuide

"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."

Every now and then, the Sky People who built Clachtoll Broch descend for a game of Brochian Ultracricket on Stoer Green.
#HitchHikersGuide
#Assynt

Am 25. Mai feiern wir gleich zwei großartige Autoren: Mit dem #TowelDay zu Ehren von Douglas Adams und #WearTheLilacDay für Terry Pratchett . Ein Tag für Handtücher, Flieder und fantastische Geschichten!

#HitchhikersGuide #Discworld #DontPanic #Scheibenwelt #Revolution in #AnkhMorpork #DouglasAdams #TerryPratchett

Happy Towel Day to all who celebrate!

These two small white toy mice have been on my desk since I bought them for Towel Day 2018.

Today is, for those unaware, “Towel Day.” Celebrating not only “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have” but remembering one Douglas Noel Adams who left us 24 years ago.

So long and thanks for all the fish you cool frood!