don't panic

it cost me thirteen euros, the paperback edition (not with this cover). books in this wretched country are way too expensive, i tell you, but i needed something new to read just as much as i needed something to make me laugh.

thirteen euros for a paperback edition of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. what a fucking rip-off, i thought. until everyone on the bus i took was staring at me like i was crazy because i was laughing so hard. no rip-off: the story's introduction alone is worth at least thirty.