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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

Is there an author that writes like this? I would like to read an entire book of this.

[-] 90s_hacker@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago

The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I can see the similarity but IMO this isn't that close to Douglas Adams.

Edit: did DA make a lot of puns and wordplay? Specifically taking well-known phrases but using their literal interpretation?

[-] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker's guide, there's:

“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

Which does fit, even if it's not necessarily a "well-known phrase"

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

I'll take it, and I stand corrected.

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