A Conversation for Talking Point: Your Favourite 'Hitchhiker' Moment

Being Drunk

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AndyC the WB

Ford: Travelling through hyperspace is unpleasantly like being drunk.
Arthur: What's so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ford: Ask a glass of water.

stands out as one of my favourites - apologies if slightly misquoted from memory.

But I still love the introduction: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun".....


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