Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.
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"Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."
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.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
The sign said:
Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
The alien ship was already thundering toward the upper reaches of the atmosphere, on its way out into the appalling void that separates the very few things there are in the Universe from one another.
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.
Such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy. Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.
If a sunbeam had ever managed to slink this far into the justice complex of Argabuthon it would have turned around and slunk straight back out again.
Travel night to Innsbruck
I had decided to take a night train but wasn't in a rush, so I opted for the 🇦🇹 detour. This allowed me to finally try a night in a Mini Cabin, more on that tomorrow. I enjoyed the booking system assigning me cabin number 42 for this #TowelDay.
The wait for the train in and around Hamburg Hbf was less enjoyable. To me the "vibes" 🙄 just seemed the most questionable of my trip - but to be fair, the stabbing two days earlier didn't help.
"Colin," he said, turning to the little, hovering ball. "I am going to abandon you to your fate."
"I'm so happy," said Colin.
"Make the most of it," said Ford. "Because what I want you to do is nursemaid that package out of the building. They'll probably incinerate you when they find you, and I won't be here to help. It will be very, very nasty for you, and that's just too bad. Got it?"
"I gurgle with pleasure," said Colin.
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God, he was just unrelentingly brilliant.
"Some time in about the mid 1980s, the phone rang."
"I come in peace," the silver robot said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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