Todos los que son fans de Douglas Adams y de su obra The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, saben que hoy, 25 de mayo, es el Día de la Toalla. Pero que tiene que ver una Toalla con un Douglas Adams, bueno citando a su libro:
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
La tradición manda llevar una toalla todo el día, yo olvide la mía (y no recordaba que había que hacerlo y solo hubiera sido para la foto jajaja) 🙄 , al menos hago este post para difundir la palabra xD. Hey! ¿Pero el 25 de Mayo no tiene nada que ver con el número 42? No, no tiene nada que ver, se eligió este día justo dos semanas de la muerte de Douglas Adams (11 de Mayo de 2001) y en aquellas fechas no pensaron en elegir una fecha con mayor “significado” más que un tributo a este escritor.
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Felíz día de la toalla frikis y Don’t panic 😉
