The kakapo is a solitary creature: it doesn’t like other animals. It doesn’t even like the company of other kakapos. One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn’t actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques.
Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
(Strigops habroptila)
Happy Birthday to Douglas Adams! He would have been 59 today.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams
(Source: whitepajamas)
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams’ 61st Birthday
