At 15 years old, the sentence "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't" fundamentally changed my understanding of language and what it was capable of. I was in awe of Adams' genius. - ThreadSky

nicomaramckay.com • 7 days ago

At 15 years old, the sentence "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't" fundamentally changed my understanding of language and what it was capable of.

I was in awe of Adams' genius.

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bronxriverdigital.com•7 days ago

I still am.

socratesjohnson.bsky.social•7 days ago

That's a phrase of his that always stuck out to me as well. Always loved it.

skreee.bsky.social•6 days ago

I recently found an old notebook where I had written down that exact sentence as a teenager because I loved it so much.

steveeditor.bsky.social•7 days ago

The line that took many years to sink in was from the same episode:

'It's unpleasantly like being drunk.'

'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?'

'You ask a glass of water.'

melanieistefan.bsky.social•6 days ago

For me, it was this: „For a moment, nothing happened. Then after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

doc000.bsky.social•7 days ago

"He knew where his towel was." is what I want on my tombstone.

rendle.dev•6 days ago

“It's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?"

"I don't know, I didn't listen.”

kristyq01.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just as lunch is in the center of the temporal day, so it should be in the center of the spiritual day.

(or something like that, I’m not a true Holy Lunching Friar, though I’ve always insisted on taking my lunch breaks somewhere other than my desk.)