From the amazing film, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

I tend to pick up accents kinda quickly, so I’m speaking in something of a British accent right now, and also am left so badly convinced that Zooey Deschanel and I would be the perfect couple. Also, her sister is Temperance Brennan on Bones! For some unexplained reason, I love that show! It’s perfect! Also, I’m drunk off of white wine. Yay, summer storms! Ok, quotes from the amusing and hilarious film that I fell in love with:

  • “Only when you know the question will you know what the answer means.”
  • “Leave this to me, I’m British, I know how to queue.”
  • “The Encyclopedia Galactica, on its chapter on love, states that it is far too complicated to define; the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible.”
  • “What is normal? What’s home? What’re cows?”
  • “This will all end in tears, I just know it.”
  • “Well that’s great, I’m gonna go…and find something else…for my entire life to be about.”

*“Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what’s actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say ‘hang the sense of it’ and keep yourself busy. I’d much rather be happy than right any day.”

“And aren’t you?”

“Uhh, no. Well, that’s where it all falls down, of course.”

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I must say, my favorite point in the film was the scene with the sperm whale tumbling down from space to earth. The issues of self-identity, the power of language over understanding and “self”. Brilliant.

Ahhh! Woah! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by ‘who am I’? Okay okay, calm down, calm down get a grip now. Ohhh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my… well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Let’s call it a… tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what’s this roaring sound, whooshing past what I was suddenly going to call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. Yeah! This is really exciting! I’m dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There’s an awful lot of that now, isn’t it? And what’s this thing, coming toward me very fast? So big, and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’…‘Ground’! That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me? Hello, Ground!