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

I agree with everything. Everything everyone has said is all so painfulyl accurate. Yet I must say again things that countless people have said since last Friday evening.

I am shocked in a way I have not been shocked in a long time. It's the shock of having someone who is always there- perhaps not a presence in my own life, but a presence whom I love all the same and have always been grateful for- dissapear.

It is similar to 1997 when Princess Diana died. But worse so, because she affected my life not one iota, although I had always expected her to be there. Douglas Noel Adams has influenced me in many ways- my friends, my ideas, my humour.

As Amanda said, this is what it feels like when you take people for granted. It's true- the people close to you are appreciated and you know the influence they gice you and what you would miss if they were gone, so the fear is all that more real. But the people you don't see, the people you just believe in- they still leave a hole when they go.

I had plans to someday meet him, though I was never sure how. I had plans, I dreamed. Grandoise, perhaps. Unattainable, perhaps. But now they are even all the more so.

I'd read the books but I don't have them with me, so I shall just commemorate him in my head. Most appropriate, I would say, as this is the place that his books expanded the hroizons of. Who can say they did not feel that he had a new and interesting approach to life and that it influence them? It did me.

Doulgas Adams, you know we all love you.

It's so sad to see all the posts (god, so many posts!) from the people whose lives he touched, but it's so nice to see them as well. He was such an amazing person.

Beautiful words, JJJ.

Thanks, 'Manda. I have to say I thought you had said everything so well in your journal. But I had to put my two pence in, even if it's to no one, going nowhere. At least it's said.