Around the time of my last post about an year ago, I was reading The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (THHGTTG). And besides reading, I was saving some of the excerpts from this book to post here. By the time I finished reading the book, I had becomme terribly out of touch with my blog so I didnt post it. A few days ago I found that document containing the excerpts, and in the meantime I've also been thinking to start blogging again. So I found it convenient to just post that here, as it'd also help me get back into the groove.
Now about the book, well, its a VERY interesting book. A must read i must say! its not really philosophical, but written in an almost unbelievably smooth flow of words. and its funny, no, its VERY funny, and at the same time its thought provoking in an interesting way.
so here i go with some excerpts from the book:
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
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"A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them."
"Buzz them?" Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
"Yeah", said Ford, "they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really." Ford leant back on the mattress with his hands behind his head and looked infuriatingly pleased with himself.
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To be Continued...
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