And now for something completely random...

It's...

Quotations from The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams, the author of the well known Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I just borrowed in this past Friday, and have been enjoying it immensely. There is so much quotable and amusing about it, but here are a few.

First, on clients:

"What [Dirk] needed, he thought, was a client. Please, God, he thought, if there is a god, any god, bring me a client. Just a simple client, the simpler the better. Credulous and rich...

"The problem was that the more credulous the client, the more Dirk fell foul at the end of his own better nature, which was constantly rearing up and embarrasing him at the most inopportune moments. Dirk frequently threatened to hurl his better nature on the ground and kneel on its windpipe, but it usually managed to get the better of him by dressing itself up as guilt and self-loathing, in which guise it could throw him right out of the ring."

(p. 27)

Mr. Adams later discourses on the art of automobile navigation:

"Perhaps it would save time if [Dirk] went back to get his car, but then again it was only a short distance, and he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of 'Zen' navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were often more surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both."

(p.29)

Well, so much for that.