Douglas Adams was such a brilliant writer. He was taken from us far too soon
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
My favourite was “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
Douglas Adams was really a master of subversion.
I live by the notion that anything I say could travel through a random wormhole and set off a galactic war spanning thousands of years.
Slartibartfast sounds like urban dictionary for shitting and vomitting simultaneously
Douglas Adams wrote in the notes accompanying the published volume of original radio scripts that he wanted Slartibartfast’s name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable. He therefore started with the name “Phartiphukborlz”, and changed bits of it until it would be acceptable to the BBC.
