“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

The Making of Americans (1925)
Context: There are many that I know and I know it. They are many that I know and they know it. They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it. Always I listen to it. Slowly I come to understand it. Many years I listened and did not know it. I heard it, I understood it some, I did not know I heard it. They repeat themselves now and I listen to it. Every way that they do it now I hear it. Now each time very slowly I come to understand it. Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Source: The History Boys

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Source: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 11, “Genetic Fingerprinting: DNA’s Day in Court” (p. 300)

"Cool Dreams"
The BFG (1982)

Australian Idol, Final Performances, Final 10

(1993), Epilogue, p. 155
The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993)