Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Samples



Here is the explanation for the towel . . .

   A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar 
hitchhiker can have.  Partly it has great practical value.  You can wrap 
it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; 
you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, 
inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars 
which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a 
miniraft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand 
combat; wrap it around you head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the 
gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid 
animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you--daft as a 
brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as 
a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it it it still 
seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag means a non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has a towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit, etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might have "accidentally" lost. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.


This sample same from Corey's Realm.


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