everyone needs an injection of adams in their day. i could quote so much more but i will limit myself to my favourite section. i think my second favourite is a description of san fransisco that britta would especially appreciate.
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Arthur looked. Much to his surprise, there was a velvet paisley-covered Chesterfield sofa in the field in front of them. He boggled intelligently at it. Shrewd questions sprang into his mind.
'Why,' he said, 'is there a sofa in that field?'
'I told you!' shouted Ford leaping to his feet. 'Eddies in the space-time continuum!'
'And this is his sofa, is it?' asked Arthur, struggling to his feet and, he hoped, though not very optimistically, to his senses.
'Arthur!' shouted Ford at him. 'That sofa is there because of the space-time instability I've been trying to get your terminally softened brain to get to grips with. It's been washed up out of the continuum, it's space-time jetsam, it doesn't matter what it is, we've got to catch it, it's our only way out of here!'
He scrambled rapidly down the rocky outcrop and made off across the field.
'Catch it?' muttered Arthur, then frowned in bemusement as he saw that the Chesterfield was lazily bobbing and wafting away across the grass.
With a whoop of utterly unexpected delight he leapt down the rock and plunged off in hectic pursuit of Ford Prefect and the irrational piece of furniture.
They careered wildly through the grass, leaping, laughing, shouting instructions to each other to head the thing off this way or that way. The sun shone dreamily on the swaying grass, tiny field animals scattered crazily in their wake.
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
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Yesterday was our 10th anniversary (of the monthly variety) and we went to a place here that serves Pangalactic Gargleblasters. Delightful. Are you reading the whole series right now? I was quite thrilled to find the whole set for $10 at Chapters last year.
Oh Douglas Adams. How did the last books on the series get so depressing?
Anyway, we'll be heading out that way in a little more than a week . . . I look forward to seeing a little more of Canada. Already a few people I've told about it are like, "That's like these two girls that came through here one time. . . "
I do love when random pieces of furniture float dreamily around, though.
i just finished mostly harmless. i thought it was hilarious that he dismissed the entire previous novel and 'lost' fenchurch. so long and thanks for all the fish got so mushy and romantic and then he backlashed in the last one.
and what did they put in the pangalactic gargleblaster!? that's fantastic! and perfectly celebratory.
Goldschlager,absinthe and something else - kind of intense but I guess that's the point ("like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick").
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