The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. by Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

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The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. by Douglas Adams

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

cause-and-effect analysis causes

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

frustrated stars decision

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

home heart night

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

inevitability one-word

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

arriving hours would-be

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconv... by Douglas Adams

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

finals messages god

You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.

radio want moving

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

nice action book

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shape... by Douglas Adams

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

divinity likes shapes

There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

simple opportunity art

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

toasters ballet car

And so the Universe ended. by Douglas Adams

And so the Universe ended.

universe

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

assuming crosses knows

Conceited little mega-puppy. by Douglas Adams

Conceited little mega-puppy.

puppy conceited littles

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the su... by Douglas Adams

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

sponges dry sun

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lyi... by Douglas Adams

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

bed book lying

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water." by Douglas Adams

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

drunk glasses water

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

lunch blood people

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

blame sheep fall

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

size satisfaction brain