Towel day
Sdrucciola maggio 24th, 2007
Domani, 25 Maggio, si celebra in tutto il mondo il Towel day per onorare la memoria del grande Douglas Adams.
Per chi ancora ignora che 42 è la risposta definitiva, un passaggio della Guida galattica per autostoppisti dedicato all’asciugamano:
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[...]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.
Per partecipare: basta munirsi di un asciugamano (foggia e taglia a discrezione) e portarlo con sé tutto il giorno, possibilmente esibendolo in quante più occasioni pubbliche possibili. Se poi aveste la chance di partecipare a un viaggio interstellare, non ne potrete proprio fare a meno!
E io mi ritrovo alla vigilia del Towel Day senza macchina digitale :(