Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)
Actually, the literary tradition that Douglas [Adams] was part of was, at least initially, the tradition of English Humor Writing that gave us P. G. Wodehouse (whom Douglas often cited as an influence, although most people tended to miss it because Wodehouse didn’t write about spaceships).
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