Douglas Adams was such a brilliant writer. He was taken from us far too soon
this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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Dude always knew where his towel was.
Truly a real froody dude.
Too hip to sit down.
[edit since I can’t resist: the correct thing would be a “hoopy frood”, not dude. I’m sorry, the superfan in me got out.]
Hoopy frood*
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
My favourite was "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Douglas Adams was really a master of subversion.
That's like in the first or second chapter and sets the expectation to all the other books
I live by the notion that anything I say could travel through a random wormhole and set off a galactic war spanning thousands of years.
Slartibartfast sounds like urban dictionary for shitting and vomitting simultaneously
Douglas Adams wrote in the notes accompanying the published volume of original radio scripts that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable. He therefore started with the name "Phartiphukborlz", and changed bits of it until it would be acceptable to the BBC.
I'm confused. Can somebody explain this reference or take away?
First guy is saying, "there's no point in trying to figure out the "answer to the universe", it's a lot easier to be happy if you just go with the flow".
This leads the reader to assume that he's got it all figured out and is a relatively happy guy, an assumption that is subverted when asked plainly, "are you happy?"
I don't know that there's a specific take away here, so much as it just being a funny quip in a larger exchange.
It's a quote between two characters in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wasn't this scene in Mostly Harmless? Books not movie, radio show, or miniseries.
No it was definitely in the first book, the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. Mostly Harmless is the last book and it doesn't include Slartibartfast.
And I think this exact quote is from the movie. It's a bit different in the book IIRC, but I prefer this one.
Ahh I mixed up the order. Been a couple decades since I read them. I guess I was thinking it was in Restaurant at the end of the Universe
po-tay-to, po-tah-to