"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." - #DouglasAdams

"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - #DouglasAdams

"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot." - #DouglasAdams

"It is a well-known fact that those people to want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it" - #DouglasAdams

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" - #DouglasAdams

From Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul. #quote #DouglasAdams #thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul

"you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space" - #DouglasAdams

"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem" - #DouglasAdams

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move" - #DouglasAdams

#quote #DouglasAdams #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #humour

I am yet to read the book, but I'll interested to see if he covers #DouglasAdams. Early Adams seems to me a perfect example, with his "the last sane man in the world" outlook, lampshaded by the character Wonko The Sane.

Like Python and #RobertHolmes, many of his observations came from satirising the white, male Oxbridge BBC from within.

I wonder if his later work was a reaction to this, with better female characters and a clinically depressed humanism which was almost Vonnegut-like in tone.

This Douglas Adams quote from 'The Salmon of Doubt' never stops being relevant, especially in a time where we've witnessed the damage disinformation and hate speech can cause. Lives have been literally lost, both by people spreading lies during the pandemic, and by bigoted rhetoric targeting women and marginalized groups. Legitimizing such views as just "difference of opinion" instead of challenging them for what they are only causes further harm.

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Heerlijk. Rustig in de trein beetje een podcast luisteren. Ik zie wel iemand met een enorm goed boek zitten #dirkgently van #DouglasAdams

I've distributed copies of #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy to my coworkers for our new #BookClub with a half sheet of questions to consider while reading.

Bonus question included:
Can you write a short #Vogon inspired poem on the back of this sheet? 😈

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#DouglasAdams #DontPanic #VogonPoetry
#VogonPoetryContest

Today's #ElizabethDaily favorite #Kindle #SFFBooks on sale: 🧵2/2

A Deadly Education by #NaomiNovik $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Education-Novel-Scholomance-Book-ebook/dp/B083RZC8KQ

Nona the Ninth by #TamsynMuir $4.99
https://www.amazon.com/Nona-Ninth-Locked-Tomb-Book-ebook/dp/B09G14BQMM

#ReadyPlayerOne by #ErnestCline $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ

Nettle & Bone by #TKingfisher $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Nettle-Bone-T-Kingfisher-ebook/dp/B08QGL9BZD

Blindsight by #PeterWatts $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Firefall-Book-Peter-Watts-ebook/dp/B003K15EKM

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition by #DouglasAdams $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams-ebook/dp/B000XUBC2C

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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#douglasadams

Celebrating Towel Day 2023 with this number.

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#DontPanic #TowelDay #DouglasAdams

Happy #TowelDay to the really hoopy froods that celebrate it!

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Happy #TowelDay to those that celebrate it!

#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #DouglasAdams

Good morning from #Norcal. Do you know where your towel is?

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