• Phroon@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    “You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.”

    “Er, five,” said the mattress.

    “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?”

    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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        7 months ago

        Yep! The hitchhikers books are so much fun lol

        I still think one of my favorite lines is “the ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”