The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
makes me laugh a lot. Things that make you laugh are valuable so when these watery pictures looked like little galaxies, I thought I'd share part of that novel novel.
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story."
@olivetreeann Yes because I was using a cobalt blue glass bowl instead of clear but I told you then we were working on the same ideas. Funny how that happens
@pandorasecho I love that dark blue glassware! And I like how our similar approaches had such different results! There is another one a I want to try with a pan of water and oil- but now I can't find the slip I wrote the instrucitons on! Oh well.
I loved the Hitchhiker's Guide series. Read all of them many years ago. Maybe I'll re-read them again. If I can find the time! (When my project ends, I should be able to do that. Along with 999 other things to do.) Cool collage. I like the blue hues, and the otherworldly feel. 8)
