The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" Is An Indispensable Companion To All
Those Who Are Keen To Make Sense Of Life In An Infinitely Complex And
Confusing Universe
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is an indispensable companion to all
those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and
confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative
on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it
is inaccurate it is at least DEFINITIVELY inaccurate. In cases of major
discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong.
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality
is frequently inaccurate."
-- 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?...
