“How do you feel?" he asked him.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

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

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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