[Groop]OT: more Towel Day Observance

Richard Walker nosmallwater@hotmail.com
Thu, 24 May 2001 23:17:18 -0700


I've never had a chance to read the Hitchhikers books. Should I be ashamed?

>From: Lawrence Steller <sheikofentropy@yahoo.com>
>To: groop@groo.com
>Subject: [Groop]OT: more Towel Day Observance
>Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
>In answer to the OT TOWEL DAY post, I think I'd be
>hard pressed to find GROO fans who didn't enjoy The
>HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and it's sequels. Am
>I right?
>
>There are two outstanding series, both of which I
>think of as one story comprised of 4 books, that I
>constantly reread.
>
>The first is THE HOBBIT+LORD OF THE RINGS (the latter
>Tolkien himself never considered a trilogy; rather as
>one book published in 3 installments).
>
>The second is the four books of the aforementioned
>HITCHHIKER'S TRILOGY (alas, I must ignore the fifth
>book of the humorously mislabeled trilogy as being
>Mostly Useless). I've alternately reread at least one
>of these two sagas every year for the last 20 years,
>and I'm about due for my biannual fix of HITCHHIKER'S.
>
>
>Tomorrow being the aforementioned Towel Day
>remembrance, what better day to start? I even bought
>myself a jet black towel, to be adorned with a DON'T
>PANIC button.
>
>It's funny, for MANY, MANY YEARS I've kept a towel
>both in my car (when I've had one) and in my backpack,
>in honor of the late Mr. Adams hysterical series. In
>trying to be goofy, it's inevitably turned out to be
>quite a useful thing to have handy!!!
>
>About this Towel Day stuff, Douglas Adams might have
>been quite amused at the absurdity of the tribute.
>However, considering how tough it was for him to
>escape the overwhelming shadow of the HITCHHIKER'S
>GUIDE, it's just as possible he might have been
>annoyed by it.
>
>By the way, I hope all of the HITCHHIKER's fans out
>there have tried his 2 DIRK GENTLY books as well: DIRK
>GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY  and THE LONG, DARK
>TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL. While having a different flovor
>and pacing, they were wonderfully inspired madness!!!
>(There WERE only 2, right???)
>
>
>=====
>Larry Steller AKA The Sheik Of Entropy
>
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