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This immediately reminded me of a quote from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (4th in the trilogy of 5): "The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had lit
by marcosscriven 12y ago
This immediately reminded me of a quote from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (4th in the trilogy of 5):
"The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. There was not a lot of demand for his services."
- Swizec 12y agoDidn't he eventually open the most popular sandwich shop in the universe? Or at least on that particular planet ...
- evan_ 12y agoYes- the society he found himself in had never thought to put meat on bread, so as Sandwich Maker he took on a kind of master craftsman/minor deity role.
- marcosscriven 12y agoI was purposely trying to avoid the comedy element, as although it was written as such, I recall at the time it was a very enlightening point for me. How little most of humanity could rebuild things from first principles.
- dmoo 12y agoAlso makes me think of the first of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Californias_Trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Californias_Trilogy Even a piece of glass is a prize.