Know Where Your Towel Is

08/15/23 • 13 min

Today we discuss one of the most enduring images from Douglas Adams's seminal "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": the idea that a good galactic hitchhiker "really knows where their towel is". What's your metaphorical towel? You know, that thing that heightens the good parts of life, and helps level out the rough patches?

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