15 April 2003 22:45
yeah, i know i'm doing a lot of posting tonight.. sorry if that bothers you [4]. here's a plug for "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy," a most excellent book by Douglas Adams. if you enjoy the random (the Monty Python type of random, Adams was a screenwriter for them.. and yes, he's British), then this book's for you: (a note of explanation, the "he" in this section is Zaphod Beeblebrox, a guy with two heads and a lot of personality problems)He had made the error of looking into his soul....
The first shock of that moment, thinking back, had been discovering that he actually had a soul.
In fact he'd always more or less assumed that he had one as he had a full complement of everything else, and indeed two of some things, but suddenly actually to encounter the thing lurking deep within him had given him a severe jolt.
...The renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
"Freedom," he said aloud.
Trillian came onto the bridge at that point and said several enthusiastic things on the subject of freedom.
"I can't cope with it," he said darkly, and sent a third drink down to see why the second hadn't yet reported on the condition of the first. He looked uncertainly at both of her and preferred the one on the right.
He poured a drink down his other throat with he plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to.
He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that so he sent a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support.
"You're drinking too much," said Trillian.
He boggled at her. He had never seen anyone sit in their own lap before.
{The book then wanders off into an explanation of flying... "The knack," it says, "lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."}
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