The Holy Lunching Friars of Voondon claimed that just as lunch was at the centre of a man's temporal day, and man's temporal day could be seen as an analogy for his spiritual life, so Lunch should be seen as the centre of a man's spiritual life, and be held in jolly nice restaurants. The editors of The Guide picked up on this philosophy, leading to Lig Lury Jr never returning from his lunch break.
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This rather revisits Ford Prefect's assertion in the original The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."