A cup of tea would restore my normality.
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted bac...
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. No, said the old man, that...
And what’s happened to the Earth? Ah. It’s been demolished. Has it, said Arthur levelly. Yes. It just boiled away into space. Look, said Arthur, I’m a bit upset about that.
Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-Arthur Dent: Oh.Ford Prefect: What happened?Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.
Arthur lolled.
Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.
Did I do anything wrong today, he said, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself.Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteent...
Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again,...
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first i...
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had eve...
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever en...
Goosnargh, said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.
Hey, this is terrific! he said. Someone down there is trying to kill us!Terrific, said Arthur.But don't you see what this means?Yes. We are going to die.Yes, but apart from that.Apart from that?!It me...
Holy Zarquon, did I ask for an existentialist elevator?
How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
How do you feel? he asked him.Like a military academy, said Arthur. Bits of me keep on passing out.
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