The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, A.K.A. H2G2, A.K.A HHGTTG. The radio show that be came two books that became a second radio show that became an LP that became a TV show that became 5 books that became a film. A story that has been told in 5 different mediums and been different in each one. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a story where the actual story and the medium are secondary, the plot is the bare minimum to keep things together, the value of the radio show / book / whatever is in the detail, in the unique word play that was Adams's trademark.
DON'T PANIC.
If writers are artists who paint pictures in words then Douglas Adams was the literary equivalent of Escher. Any short group of words in isolation may be normal and consistent but when you examined the whole sentence the meaning twists and changes into something that is somehow different to the sum of it's parts, not necessarily more or less but quite different and unexpected.
You've got to build bypasses. Although no one seems quite sure exactly why.
Answers aren't much use unless you know exactly what they are the answer to.
Nothing is impossible but some things are very very improbable.
An infinite number of monkeys with typewrites and a script for Hamlet that they've worked out bare a remarkable resemblance to a Hollywood studio.
Do not say hello to the dish of the day.
A brain the size of a planet will often result in everything being very dull and predictable.
Mice are sneaky.
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