Do(u)g Day Afternoon!

I read, "The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy" and other novels by Douglas Adams in a huge, hardbound, bumper volume, as late as in 2003! That incident made me appreciate his work, because his was an original style, which Terry Pratchett, robert Ranking and many others would generously copy and steal!

I don't want to write what chapters or stories in his books impressed me. Most people anyhow read his books. However, I do not believe that many people know what I am going to tell, becuase it comes from the introduction of his bumper volume.

What Adams described was very simple. The year was 1974 or so, he was in Norway, and not having enough money to buy food, he opted for a couple of bottles of very strong local beer and was lying in a field for a whole afternoon. And then he tried to find his way back.

He tried to ask a person for directions, but it turned out that he was deaf and dumb. After a while, he tried another person with similar luck. He was alreasdy confused a little, but his brain, lightened by the strong beer did not make him think much about it. But then when he met another person and asked him for duitectioncs and turned out that he too was deaf, dumb and blind, he almost went nuts!

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