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"It was crazier than a mad monkey."
"Southend seems to be melting away... the stars are swirling... a dustbowl... my legs are drifting into the sunset... my left arm's come off too." A frightening thought struck him: "Hell," he said, "how am I going to operate my digital watch now?"
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
(Babel fish)
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-boggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.