Whenever I need a perspective on the world, like most people I turn to a book. Unlike most people, that book is part of a series that are "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The late, great Douglas Adams provided insight and perspective on almost any subject in the world. All of that done in a style that is parts Sci-Fi, parts Monty Pyton.

Last night, while re-reading one book, I came across a section that relates to this message board. Enjoy...

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit aorund the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath the silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of pure hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent."

from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"; Adams, Douglas; 1980

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Originally posted by BigKyle_at_Bose:
...The late, great Douglas Adams provided insight and perspective on almost any subject in the world....

He does (did) have a way with words... a favorite author of mine also!