Wish You Were Here, An official biography of Douglas Adams

[JitterbugPerfume]

by Nick Webb.

I left the books I was reading at my sons house over the week end , and this one was next on the "pile" and I am not to far into it .(been canning tomatoes and freezing peaches) but so far it is really interesting.

Has anyone read it?


from the book---

for instance, you are reading a book, a rectangular block of laminated wood pulp.Some huge vegetable, probably grown in a Scandinavian mono culture where no bird sings has been harvested so that its fiber can be chemically and mechanically treated to make paper. Oil bases pigment has been squeezed onto the paper by machines. The resulting black marks are intended to convey information using an invented language, so creative that it can generate sentences like this one which has probably never been written before in the history of the species. With luck you will still find it intelligible. If the wood pulp vegetable were still standing, you would probably want to lean against it!

don't you just love it?

[lisa58]

1. I'll have to get that for my husband...

...a Douglas Adams book was the first book he gave me to read when I met him.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. no wonder you fell in love with him!

any man who appreciated Adams is my kind of man!

[pam4water]

3. So Long and Thanks for All the Yucks,

I saw him speak a long time ago. He told a story that began with the line, "You can this didn't happen in America, because nobody got shot." I love to interject that line, these days.