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

I find it rather odd that I, who so recently has expressed a desire to write what I think, should find such a perfect forum for my thoughts. Still better, it is based on an idea and a book which I enjoy and love. The works of Douglas Adams have amused me for some time now and moved me mentally into new realms of thought as well as literature.

I am also pleased to find the BBC hosting this enterprise. As a half-English boy in America, I have always loved British programing as a part of my heritage, my ethnic background. I feel that this important part of Americanism, the embracing of your blood and recognition of the nobility in others', is slipping as the United States slips from melting pot to mushed goo of uniformity. Still, I would not have my nationality be anything else.

As Hermann Hesse once wrote, anything can be accomplished so long as enough mental energy and projection is applied. I have always believed that the mental world has no direct relationship to the physical world without a direct medium such as speech. Yet, sure enough, here I am where I want to be without voicing my desire or even realizing exactly what I want it to be. Interesting, isn't it?