> Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose.
I thought it was just a funny book. What is its "deeply serious purpose"?
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42
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#12“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
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#13And for those of you who would like to hear the original Radio Series again, it's being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra right now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m I wonder if they will have the original Pink Floyd music when they land on Magrathea, or whether it will be edited out, as it was in the BBC recordings due to rights issues.
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#14> The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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#16We need those telephone sanitizers now.
In modern culture, they'd be touchscreen kiosk sanitizers.
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#17It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
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#18I love these books, but why post a pece that is paywalled?
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#19> Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose. I thought it was just a funny book. What is its "deeply serious purpose"?
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#20As anecdote, my girlfriend teaches philosophy and has used fragments of this book more than once.
I personally find it to be a modern Alice in Wonderland, don't you think?