“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”

— Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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