“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

—  Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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