Something from the archives for the supporters of 42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams, from Kevin Jon Davies....
This line (so redolent of a certain recent ex-POTUS) was written for Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox.
I discovered it in 2016 among some loose pages from a yellow legal pad in Douglas Adams’ archives held at Cambridge. They have it catalogued as written circa mid-1990s and there were jottings about his computer game "Starship Titanic" on the same page.
Douglas' notebooks are full of odd lines and non-sequiturs; ideas or concepts meant for one project or another. I passed this one, along with others, to the adapter/producer/director Dirk Maggs and he added it into the script for "The Hexagonal Phase" radio series. It was recorded by actor Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod, intended for a moment in episode one, although it ultimately didn’t make the cut.
Isn’t it magic to see things written in the author’s own hand? It’s part of what will make this book so special.