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• Obviously the subject of death was in the air, but more as something to be avoided than harped upon.
  Possibly the horror that Zaphod experienced at the prospect of being reunited with his deceased relatives led on to the thought that they might just feel the same way about him and, what's more, be able to do something about helping to postpone this reunion....
• One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard
  pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid....
• Wizards are constantly subject to negative publicity.
  A case in point. One elderly wizard of my acquaintance, whenever he was bothered by unexpected guests, would immediately cast one of three spells upon them, either turning them to stone, transforming them into segmented worms, or blasting them entirely out of the kingdom....
• There are only two things in this world that I am sure of, death and taxes, and we just might do something about death one of these days.
  -- shade...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Just about the only thing more numerous than zucchini are the number of recipes for disguising the stuff as something else.
  Clearly, it is something else....
• Death is something that he and I faced together on a number of occasions.
  I always thought that his death and mine might be linked in some way.... -- Avon (on Blake)...
• Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about.
  That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.0....