[b]Douglas Adams
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It’s a nice day, or You’re very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.[/b]
Let’s finally pin this down. You know, if it can be.
The Door Was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn’t have a good answer to.
Another example: Dasein.
Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
I guess we’ll never know if He did.
It was his subconscious which told him this—that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.
Still, what’s that next to the unconscious part?
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Got a few of them here, don’t we? And not just the Kids.
But what about the End of the Universe? We’ll miss the big moment.
I’ve seen it. It’s rubbish, said Zaphod, nothing but a gnab gib.
A what?
Opposite of a big bang.
Well, at least we know what it’s called.