makes me wonder when the Vogons will show up! or maybe they are already here!! We better have our towels and yoga mats ready .. :shock: :lol: Oh I know a few Vogons. They all work for some corporation or other :D It's a great point you make though about DA's prescience with regard to the HGG. I was...

... maybe today's version of this would substitute 'cell phones' ... :mrgreen: :lol: or if we want to be really edgy substitute iPhone or iPad - I can feel the riled upness as I write this :roll: But it's a great thought Giselle. Translated into today's terms, what specific things would DA have poi...

Welcome back Mary, long time no see. Thanks Robert. I'm only going to address one aspect of your post. Not ignoring the earlier statements, just wanting to focus on what you say about language and concepts. The phenomenology of spirit, assessed as real observable, finds that spirit is always locate...

I'd like to pick up on one of Adams themes, atheism. I do so with some trepidation because there are many people on booktalk who know a lot about this topic so I will preface my comments with the disclaimer that I know almost nothing. But I think it is a significant theme in HHG so I will forge ahe...

The Vogon Poetry Slam is held at the Vancouver Public Library. Have a look: https://www.vpl.ca/events/details/3rd_a ... am_vog-off

For those of you who are a bit on the proactive side - get your librarian interested and maybe you'll get one started near you.

Have you guys read the <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html">Edge-Haidt article</a>? Here's a quote from the article: "In what follows I will take it for granted that religion is a part of the natural world that is appropriately studied by the the method...

Giselle - oh yes that was a brilliant little scene - but of course poor Arthur is as much the butt of the joke as the wanna-be Ghengis since Prosser must have got up so the bulldozer's could do their work. The thing (it seems to me) that this scene (and really the whole book) speaks to is that what ...

Does anyone have a favourite section in chapters 1 to 5? Mine is right near the end of 5 when the young Vogon guard comes to tell Prostetnic Bogon Jeltz about the new tech that has just made all hyperspatial express routes unnecessary - moments after Earth has been obliterated to make way for one. A...

Giselle - I hate to accuse DA of postmodernism (not at all sure he'd have liked that), but I do think HG is a commentary on our tendency to make grand statements and decisions that we forget are about as important as a pea in the face of 600 princesses with the necessary numbers of mattresses. All h...

Snicker. Penelope, what a good excuse! May it gale! Thanks Giselle. You know that you've got a good author when the preface makes you giggle. My edition has a preface which is titled "A guide to the guide - some unhelpful remarks from the author". I mean really! Snickered from the first li...