Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
Douglas AdamsIt was his subconscious which told him this - that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.
Douglas AdamsThat was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
Douglas Adams[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.
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