When vacationing with friends in Greece, Adams recounts, 'every morning they'd have to sit around and wait for me because I couldn't find my blessed towel. Turns out, Douglas learned this the hard way. The towelĮvery good hitchhiker knows that the one item you absolutely cannot do without is a good towel. Why? "Because it looked a lot more attractive out there than it did around me." 4.
"Somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” he remembered thinking.
The popular story Adams tells of the story's genesis is that he lay drunk and depressed in a field in Innsbruck, while himself hitchhiking around Europe, with a stolen copy of, you guessed it, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Europe. Although Adams admits constant repetition of the anecdote has obliterated any actual memory of that night (somewhat akin to the effects of a Pangalactic Gargleblaster), no better explanation exists. “I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” 3. In this pre-pre-eminent period, he worked variously as a hospital porter, barn builder, and chicken shed cleaner, and was even employed as a bodyguard by a Qatari family.Īnd of course, he gave us one of the best quotes about procrastination yet: “I love deadlines” Adams said, possibly while locked in a hotel room for days with his editor trying to finish the final draft of So Long and Thanks For All The Fish. He had initial success working briefly with Monty Python, before falling into a rut and moving back in with his mother.
Having studied at Cambridge, Adams struggled after graduating to make a dent in the universe. He was also an active supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Perhaps it was a formative period, given the strong themes of animal intelligence (often kept secret, and being far greater than that of humans) that run throughout the series.Īlso, in 1994, Adams was involved in a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro, for which he dressed as a rhino in support of the British charity organisation Save the Rhino International, helping raise approx. It wasn’t just dolphins and mice he respectedĪdams' parents divorced in 1957 he, his sister Susan, and their mother then moved to an RSPCA animal shelter in Essex, run by his maternal grandparents.
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