Quotes on Nanikore

Quotes: Boundaries

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:23:16 +0000

This quote is from the amazing Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by the late, great Douglas Adams. It’s a timeless series of books and radio shows, and if you haven’t listened to them, it’s worth the effort even if they started over 40 years ago now.

“Do you have any advice for a traveller?”

“Yes, get a beach house. It gives you somewhere to go … a beach house doesn’t even have to be on the beach, though the best ones are. We all like to congregate at boundary conditions … where land meets water, where Earth meets air, where body meets mind, where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.”

Old Man Up The Pole, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Quintessential Phase, Douglas Adams.

These quotes are just bits I’ve seen around the place which I thought were interesting or potentially witty. I like this one as it’s likely true; I think we do like boundary conditions and contradictions. I myself have been happiest on these boundaries either on the beach, watching the waves, or snowboarding feeling like you’re going to fall into the sky.

Boundary Conditions

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:51:41 +0000

I mentioned in the last post about ‘boundary conditions’ and a quote from the ’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. Here it is. It’s in the fifth instalment, where Arthur Dent is looking for information from an old man who lives up poles (and can seemingly teleport between them). He points out he only lives up poles in Spring, Summer and Autumn, as he goes south in the winter, to his beach house. He then explains why he bought the beach house:

A beach house doesn’t even have to be on the beach, though the best ones are. We all like to congregate at boundary conditions … where land meets water, where earth meets air, where body meets mind, where space meets time, we like to be on one side and look at the other.

Man up a pole

The boundary condition part just stuck in my mind as another truism from THHGTTG - I think people are attracted to them, myself included. Most of the best places I’ve lived have been near such boundaries, and I only have to go to the beach and see how many people congregate there year round to see that maybe, just maybe, Adams - or rather the man up the pole - was on to something.

If you haven’t listened to Hitchikers’ you really need to do so - it’s a masterpiece of wit and observation.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Complete Radio Series

Word of The Day: Eschatology

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:42:14 +0000

Eschatology |ˌeskəˈtäləjē|
noun
The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek eskhatos ‘last’ + -logy .

I got that from the Apple Dictionary (New Oxford American English). There’s other results from reference.com and so on.

I saw the word whilst reading Microserfs before. Surely there’s a business plan positively dying for this word?

Test 2: Life Quote

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:02:42 +0000

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“We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn’t have to stop there.”

– Dana Gould

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Odd Quotes of the Week

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:31:25 +0000

Well, it’s been another week and there’s been a lot in the news as always, but a couple of quotes struck me over the last few days, especially a couple I saw whilst browsing through BBC’s News pages.

The first up is an award to the Japanese government official Hiroyuki Hosoda, for a great ‘stating of the obvious’ regarding the incursion of a Chinese submarine into Japanese waters:

“We are chasing after the submarine, which is underwater,” Mr Hosoda told a news conference on Thursday, adding the vessel was heading north.

So that’s clearer then.

On a much more tragic note, rapper Russell Jones (aka ‘Ol’ Dirty Bastard’) sadly died in the studio whilst recording his comeback album, prompting a rather sad eulogy from his mother:

“To the public he was known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but to me he was known as Rusty. The kindest most generous soul on earth.”