h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The article is very good, DNA would have liked it!

But I missed the first sentence(s) from 'The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul'

'It can hardly be a conincidence the no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."'

DNA goes on:
'Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness thet can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross and have just discovered that their luggage ha landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve-jangling colours, to make effortless the business of separating the traveler forever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveler with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.'

Some start to a book, I think. And goes well with your piece!

tjing
Milla

I had forgotten that one!

Thanks for reminding me of it - I remember enjoying the book a great deal.



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