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    7 months ago

    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, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe 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.

    – Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

    (Immediately after she realized it, the Earth gets destroyed.)

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        7 months ago

        I’ve re-read it many times, along with re-listening to the radio series, the LPs, re-watching the TV series, I can even appreciate the feature film, despite it being the least of the versions. I dearly love Douglas Adams.

        The only thing I haven’t done in many, many years is play the INFOCOM game. Too devious.