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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My favourite was "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

Douglas Adams was really a master of subversion.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie 5 points 6 months ago

That's like in the first or second chapter and sets the expectation to all the other books