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

QUOTES:

1) “…You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?” (p.28)

2) …We say, “keep passing the open windows.” This is an old joke. There was a street clown called King of the Mice: he trained rodents, he could make dogs fart on command. One night he jumped out of his window with all his pets in a box. Written of the box was this: “life is serious but art is fun!” I hear his funeral was a party. A street artist had killed himself. Nobody had supported him but now everybody missed him. Now who would make the dogs make music and the mice pant?.. (p.183)

3) Sorrow floats.

4) You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (last page)

CONCERNING QUEEN

1) He knew it would be the fall of 1941 before he’d finally get to go, because he’d set himself the task of making money for his tuition; but at the Arbuthnot-by-the-Sea in the summer of ’39 my father would have been happy to let the guests and other help think he was headed for Harvard straight away. (p.5)

2) “Give me a smart bear and f*** the Nazis,” Freud said. (p.27)

3) Mother and Father and Earl would drive home along the coast road, stopping to watch the surf at Rye, where the homes of the rich were; (p.34)

4) “Why don’t you fly away, Harold? Why don’t you fly off and find Mr. Dove?” (p. 102)

5) The name of the chapter No 10: “A Night At The Opera: Schlagobers and blood.

NOTES:
Latin Emeritus
State O’ Maine
John-O
King Of Mice*
Donald Justice*

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