Plum@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe (second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy')en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down10
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe (second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy')en.wikipedia.orgPlum@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squareThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·22 days agoI loved the tagline for the 5th book in the series. It was something like: “The fifth in the increasingly inaccurate Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy”
minus-squareshutz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-222 days ago“… Increasingly inaccurately named…” was how it was phrased. Edit: I also really loved the first few pages of the fifth book. Each line below was on its own page: Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
I loved the tagline for the 5th book in the series. It was something like:
“The fifth in the increasingly inaccurate Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy”
“… Increasingly inaccurately named…” was how it was phrased.
Edit: I also really loved the first few pages of the fifth book. Each line below was on its own page:
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.