Jensi 
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
– Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Douglas Adams
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ….”“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 36 (1984)
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/49165/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #candidate #choice #democracy #election #illusionofchoice #partisanship #politicians #selfdefeat #selfinterest #voting
Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 36 (1984) | WIST Quotations
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ...." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything…
Ich habe vor ein paar Tagen ein gewisses Alter erreicht und daher wurde es Zeit für eine thematisch relevante Gönnung. 🥳
Ich habe mich für das Werk eines ehemaligen #DoctorWho - und #MontyPython - Autors entschieden. 😇
EDIT: Uii, seid ihr alle lieb!💛💛💛
#DouglasAdams #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #42DieAntwortAufFastAlles
#Bookstodon
👾 Attila Gondawent to a Thalia bookshop today and saw an "111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss" from @markmccaughrean, and I had flipped to number 42 to check if the author had the same idea as me, and yes:
it's Betelgeuse 😊
trashHeap 
Remembering, and really feeling that bit from Douglas Adam's "Life The Universe and Everything" :
He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope... ... He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arms out wide.
‘I will go mad!’ he announced.
‘Good idea,’ said Ford Prefect....
#DouglasAdams #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #LifeTheUniverseAndEverything
Daniel Sirensjö 🇸🇪🇺🇦Ford Prefect fick bulldozerföraren som skulle riva Arthur Dents hus, att själv lägga sig framför bulldozern så Ford och Arthur kunde gå till puben. #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #hormuz
A quotation from Douglas Adams
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 1, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, ch. 33 (1979)
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1465/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #anticipation #happening #nothing #occurrence #pause #stillness
pngwenAn automatic starbucks machine promised to make me a "chai tea latte." Instead, it dispensed a lukewarm brown beverage that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Naturally, I suffered through the beverage for reasons of #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy fandom. #HHGTTG
CockneyLaurieSorry to say but the older I get the more I think that Douglas got the passengers for the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B wrong....
Cos while it might be nice to get rid of the useless part of the population, at least they didn't hurt the rest of us. Far better to get rid of the super rich and the super ambitious and the dictators!
#HHGTTG
#hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
#DouglasAdams
#HitchhikersGuide
Rapha Mack42.
Oft zitiert, aber eigentlich habe ich keine Ahnung.
Lohnt es sich da mal etwas nachzuholen?
Schaff ich die 5 Bücher als einer der im Urlaub mal ein Buch liest, und selbst das oft nicht durch bekommt?
Taugt der Film was?
Deutsch oder Englisch?