A tremendous feeling of peace came over him. He knew that at last, for once and for ever, it was now all, finally, over.
#DouglasAdams
Lallafa had lived in the forests of the Long Lands of Effa.
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 dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?
Oh no, not again.
"What's up?"
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."
He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.
"So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?"
"So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention."
"Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
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.
Your Plastic Pal who's Fun to be with
#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #Comedy #Humor #Satire #Parody
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.
OK, not recommending for everyone(!) but some people might enjoy at least the intro to this 🙂
https://youtu.be/xmIIOEDDVXw
"It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother used to say..."
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."
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis: Der schwierige Versuch, Douglas Adams' Humor zu verfilmen https://glm.io/196547?n
#peranhalterdurchdiegalaxis #douglasadams
"But you like the way it's changed?" demanded Ford.
"I like everything," moaned the robot. "Especially when you shout at me like that. Do it again, please."
"Just tell me what's happened!"
"Oh, thank you, thank you!"
"All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."
"You stay there," said Ford, "and you'll soon be recaptured and have your conditional chip replaced. You want to stay happy, come now."
The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.
"We apologize for the inconvenience." God's Final Message to His Creation, written in letters of fire on the side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
"I think," Marvin murmured at last, from deep within his corroding rattling thorax, "I feel good about it."
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
"Marvin," he said, "just get this elevator to go up, will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop."
"Why?" asked Marvin dolefully.
"I don't know," said Zaphod, "but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him."
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