![]() ![]() "Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin. ![]() "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." It is my opinion that books shoudln't be abridged. It's probably because of the editing necessary to make an abridged version. So Long and Thanks for all the Fish didn't succeed so well. It takes me about a day on average to read one of these (usually) 200 page books. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. I usually cannot stop reading a book in Adam's hilarious Hitchiker series. "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" ![]() "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "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." "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." Nothing anything like so straightforward. "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. ![]() "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see." ![]()
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