Submitted by cavillchallenger t3_10nhysr in books
my_trout_is_killgore t1_j68tm5u wrote
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
One Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly for ever.
-- change a few things around to make it personal to him and that's a quote any Adam's fan would be happy with.
OCFlier t1_j6cf9vt wrote
Does anyone else read this in the voice of The Book, Peter Jones?
RIP your dad and Douglas Adams
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