Some kind of INFINITY and Stupidity

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Another blend of deep thought with superficial humour, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Douglas Adams 1979):


"It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the nightsky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself."





Pretending to (Not) Being Stupid by (Maybe) Being Stupid

"One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so - but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence the act. He preffered people to be puzzled rather than contemptous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be genuinely stupid, but she could no longer be bothered to argue about it."









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