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Article #3832Re: Vale Douglas Adams
From: Daley Llama
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:36
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:36
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Che Guava <che_guava@my-deja.com> wrote in <3AFE52CF.2F3010A8@my-deja.com>: >42 may have been the Answer but 49 was the number that came up for >Douglas Adams when he booked in for his last meal in the restaurant at >the >end of the universe. > >One Day the Babelfish translator will be fitted at birth.. > >and the Infinite Improbability drive will still be powering One Nation, >(and they will still be moaning like a morose elevator) > >Where are the funny and clever men of yesteryear... Dead most of them. Have you tried Terry Pratchett? > >the goons and now Adams.. gone.. and just the empty black void remains.. Empty for those who live in the past. "Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both". -- (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times).
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