Towel

(i am not)

I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.

But at least I KNOW WHERE MY TOWEL IS

HI

I wish i could say I found the answer, but alas someone else figured it out and i thought I would pass it on.

Simply put, the answer to the life, the universe, and everything, is a Hot Shower.

42 celcius is ~108 Farhenheit. If you want a hot shower, you set the water heater/boiler temperature near this number. Douglas Adams lived in England, so it makes sense he would use celsius.

Think about all the connections in the book to towels....yet never for one of their main purposes, drying off.

If you were a hitchiker stuck in a vogon cargo hold....wouldn't the first thing you want when you get to the Heart of Gold, is a hot shower? I mean you have your towel ready, right? But no, Arthur perpetually in his robe, never showering, always stumbling around. All he needs is a hot shower! Ideally with Trillian!

Where do people do some of their best thinking?

I'm sure there are more connections but I have not read the book again since.

Thank you Douglas Adams, you are a true genius.

Your secret lasted a long time...but its time to tell the world.

To celebrate Towel Day, I'm looking for good quotes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays about towels. So far I've got:

Series 2, episode 2, chapter 11 “The Future I Was So Worried About”

Rooster: "Let me introduce myself, my name's Rooster and this is my towel."

Zaphod: "Hello, Rooster; hello, Towel."

Series 2, episode 2, chapter 1 “The Universe Continued Unabated”

Zaphod: “You want me to suck your towel?”

Series 2, episode 2, chapter 1 “The Universe Continued Unabated”

The Book: “There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.”

and the whole chapter called “Perhaps We could Wave Your Towel” from series 2, episode 4.

There‘s also he bit with the bird people when Ford wraps his towel around the bird's head to convince him to go to the ground. I’m pretty sure I can find that one.

The one I'm looking for in particular is an exchange between Ford and Arthur that goes something like this:

Ford: “I wonder what Rooster would do...”

Arthur: “Who's Rooster?”

Ford: “Mate of mine. Great hitcher. There's a guy who really knows where his towel is.”

Arthur: “Why should anyone want to know where his towel is?”

I’ve looked for it in the Vogon ship when Ford first explains his job to Arthur and haven‘t found it. Does anyone have other ideas where this quote falls in the story?

TIA, and HAPPY TOWEL DAY!