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Reading a book in a second language (Irish) is not super easy and it is slowww but it's really fun and satisfying feeling like I am understanding. I love you Irish. Is aoibhinn liom an Ghaeilge, tá an aistriúchán an-suimiúil. Tá an leabhar an-taitneamhach, is scríbhneoir greannmhar é Roald Dahl agus is aistritheoir den scoth í Niamh Ní Argáin

"Machines are stealing our jobs!" But it's philosophers trying to turn off the super computer that will tell people the meaning of life. "No, we won't have any work to do!!"

"Look", said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

Arthur ideal fish out of water protagonist. He's so done he's losing his shit he has no idea what's going on he's losing his mind

"(Arthur guessed (quite wrongly)"

This guy altered his own brains to the point that he gets these wild achievements but doesn't even remember wanting them in the first place, he just does them because he doesn't have any capacity for comprehending his own desires. And then he finds out that HE WAS THE ONE WHO DID IT? Because HIS INITIALS ARE BURNED INTO HIS BRAIN? WHAT THE FUCK?

[comedy comedy comedy Psychological Torment] WHAT

This guy is the classic brainless "charming" asshole politician-type (except he's a genius) and then he goes "yeah lol I keep doing miraculously clever things and not remembering why I even did them it's like I'm disconnected from my own mind. Ends up my brain has been altered, and I was the one who did it. Anyway" EXCUSE ME ??

The computer on a ship singing you'll never walk alone as the captain yells at it to shut up and nobody can pilot the ship because none of them learned how

A robot that is aware that it exists and doesn't like it at all is Wonderful
Poor Marvin the depressed robot

INFINITE HAMLET MONKEYS??????????

Douglas Adams writes the stupidest funniest shit in such a matter of fact tone

Oh hey, the "space is really big" quote

'"Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard. It was the first phrase he'd learned when he joined the Guard Corps'
Insert anti cop comment here.

Douglas you are crazy what the fuck are you talking about

Arthur not being able to process losing everything and everyone he's ever known, so having to think much smaller, like a stranger he saw at the shop, or a monument, certain movies, is honestly very moving. But also "There is longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out" is funny as hell

Oh hey, the ear fish!

Falls for the classic sci-fi problem of "this species has these traits, this character has this flaw because of what he is"

"the island, which by a meaningless coincidence was called France" unfuckingbelievable Douglas

He describes the chaotic silent horror of humanity being invaded and the world ending and then just goes "The ships hung in the air the way bricks don't". Thank you Douglas

There's a word that means to be aware of, to know, to meet, and to have sex with, which I'm sure has never caused a miscommunication

You really can just write whatever you want (positive)

Adams will be like "in his bag he has this technology that I made up and a towel. Here's what the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy has to say about towels" and then it's a page of Scifi Towel Information with all the places and words he made up

I am loving Adams' comic style.

Okay I kind of love Ford Prefect

"They don't have sarcasm on Betelgeuse.."

"..wandered blearily around his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers.."

""Yellow", he thought, and stomped off back to his bedroom to get dressed"