9/1/2023 0 Comments Douglas adams poetryAnd so I thought to the degree that we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness and knowledge, then that would be a good thing. Then whatever the question is that most approximates: what’s the meaning of life? That’s the question we can ultimately get closer to understanding. So, to the degree that we can better understand the universe, then we can better know what questions to ask. hitchhikers guide to the galaxy douglas adams poetry vogon vogon poetry. And if you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the easy part. So then I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which is quite positive I think and it highlighted an important point which is that a lot of times the question is harder than the answer. Feast your ears upon the poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. The Vogons are (we hope) fictional, but Earth has its very own Bad Poet Laureate. The settings of these three artist Douglas Adams paintings, The Drive, Difficult Bunker, and The Putting Green, were a mystery for a long time, and were often thought of as fictional places. I guess when I was around 12 or 15…I had an existential crisis, and I was reading various books on trying to figure out the meaning of life and what does it all mean? It all seemed quite meaningless and then we happened to have some books by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in the house, which you should not read at age 14 (laughter). In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams created a race of aliens whose hobby was writing poetry so terrible that listening to it was akin to a physical assault.
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