Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted
Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later
editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to
save on printing costs.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" skips lightly over this tangle of
academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect"
has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Not only is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wholly remarkable book
it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the "Celestial Home Care
Omnibus", better selling than "Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity",
and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical
blockbusters, "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes"
and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?...
