Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters
they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay
βHe leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying toΒ unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.β
βStones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies,Β only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitelyΒ more likely to kill you if they fell on you.β
βHe gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the windΒ to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy foolingΒ around with some leaves a little way off.β
βIt looked only partly like aΒ spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on,Β and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.β
βIf it was an emotion, it was a totallyΒ emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like iceΒ is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flungΒ fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons isΒ impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly,Β but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.β
And, of course: βThe ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks donβt.β
the one that will always stay with me is βArthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,β i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.
I will reblog this every time I see it because these are some of my favorite sentences in the English language.
I FUCKING LOVE DOUGLAS ADAMS, HITCHHIKERβS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY IS LIKE MY FAVORITE THING
I canβt believe you guys are forgetting:Β
βHe was experiencing the aural equivalent of looking at a picture of two black silhouetted faces and suddenly seeing it as a picture of a white candlestick.β
My personal favorite Douglas Adams quote is not from a book at all, but about writing itself.Β
βI love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.β
#relatable
βDrinking a pan galactic gargleblaster was like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.β
