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My favorite thing is that almost every sci-fi story is like, “We’ve got to save the earth! Look at all of the amazing things on it! It’s one of the greatest planets in the universe!” and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galay blew it up in the first five minutes.
So, I’m reading Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy for the first time and I’ve stumbled upon this description of one of the characters:
“She was slim, darkish, humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes. With her red head scarf knotted in that particular way and her long flowing silky brown dress, she looked vaguely Arabic.”
Holy diversity Batman!
And in a series that came out in the ‘70s!
I need to see photos of this character!
Wait…
Did I miss something?
I feel like I missed something.
Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters
they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay
“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”
“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”
“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”
“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”
“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”
And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.
I am all of them.
I'm sorry did you put Zaphod Beeblebrox behind someone else?
On a scale of self esteem?
"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
"He had seen the whole universe stretching to infinity around him - everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it."
A little late for Towel Day, but still in that same spirit.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate
WE FOUND IT.
WE FOUND BETELGEUSE FIVE.
Remember when we read about touchscreen and ebook before those things exist? Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find myself a nice towel.
OH.
MY.
GOD.
This is a dream come true. Now all I need is a towel and a Babel fish.
HOLY SHIT IT'S MARTIN FREEMAN
How did I not see this the first time I watched the movie
Loved the movie, but the book is a million times better.
Still, great movie. Poor Martin Freeman seems to be getting type-cast though, because let's be honest; Arthur Dent, Bilbo Baggins and Sherlock's John Watson are the same person
