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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. -- Douglas Adam
• The Vogon ship hung motionless in the sky...
• Obviously the subject of death was in the air, but more as something to be avoided than harped upon.
  Possibly the horror that Zaphod experienced at the prospect of being reunited with his deceased relatives led on to the thought that they might just feel the same way about him and, what's more, be able to do something about helping to postpone this reunion....
• Vogon spaceships don't look as if they had been designed so much as congealed. -- Douglas Adam
• One of the interesting things about space is how dull it is - there's so much of it and so little in it.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Quote #504 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
  -- Douglas Adams [found as the finger .sig of Phil Wadler]...