There are some things from my youth that just get the memories flooding back, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams was one of those special pieces that was so “Out there” it was ….”out there”. I have been laughing to myself all day, thus I write.
I read all the books, added Dirk Gently as well. I loved Douglas Adams writing, simple yet cleaver. a style that is rare. With quotes that people are using in day to day writing and vocabulary, yet they most likely do not know where they came from.
The most common is 42, the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Douglas Adams chose 42 simply because he thought it was the funniest-sounding of all two-digit numbers. “A completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven. In fact it’s the sort of number that you could, without any fear, introduce to your parents.”
The plans for the intergalactic bypass, comparing it to the bypass going through Arthur Dents house. The quote from the Guide: “Space,” it says, “is big. REALLY big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the street to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
Click on the link to IMDB laugh a little & then search for more quote, Google “Dont Panic”.
Better still get the books, yeh books plural. The film took a highlighted look at it all. The books go through to the “Restaurant at the end of the Universe”, “Life the universe and everything”, “So long and thanks for all the fish” and later the fifth book “Mostly Harmless”
Finally, when you have laughed your way through those, get a Douglas Adams view of an “Holistic Detective” Dirk Gently.
And the lasts words from God, as read by Marvin the paranoid android, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience”
Thank you and good night
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