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Words to (almost) live by
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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I'm confused. Can somebody explain this reference or take away?
First guy is saying, "there's no point in trying to figure out the "answer to the universe", it's a lot easier to be happy if you just go with the flow".
This leads the reader to assume that he's got it all figured out and is a relatively happy guy, an assumption that is subverted when asked plainly, "are you happy?"
I don't know that there's a specific take away here, so much as it just being a funny quip in a larger exchange.
It's a quote between two characters in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wasn't this scene in Mostly Harmless? Books not movie, radio show, or miniseries.
No it was definitely in the first book, the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. Mostly Harmless is the last book and it doesn't include Slartibartfast.
Ahh I mixed up the order. Been a couple decades since I read them. I guess I was thinking it was in Restaurant at the end of the Universe
And I think this exact quote is from the movie. It's a bit different in the book IIRC, but I prefer this one.
po-tay-to, po-tah-to