“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Work
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...
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Douglas Adams
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”