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[flemmings]

I have finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Slowly slowly I add to my geek cred on all those '100 books everyone should have read' memes. So now I know where Babelfish came from, and 42. OTOH I wonder at the lack of commas after apostrophes in this original paperback (which somehow has not fallen apart in the last 30 years.) Not the punctuation apostrophe, the other kind. 'What's happened Ford?' sort of thing. It's endemic. Is this a feature of Adams' style?

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[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who went to Shakespeare plays and thought 'what's the big deal, it's all cliches' until she realized that's where the cliches started ...

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Even when you know, it's hard sitting through Macbeth-- and rather worse acting it, I'd guess-- because the Famous Quotes come every other line just about. At least people know that 'to be or not to be' is in Hamlet and expect it, but Macbeth gets thrown into a lot of literature unattested, and then you're sitting there hearing it...