Excellent Quotes: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Periodically, I will post a truly excellent quote from some book or movie that has had an outsized influence on me and taken up vital space in the grey matter that could have been used to memorize the multiplication tables or the sequential order of service of the Presidents of the United States or something similarly useful to getting promoted at work. You will read them. You will agree that they are excellent. Or, woefully for you, Carlton will no longer show you up.

And so, submitted for your perusal:

“Tonight, Gordon pushed the maps in his pocket and strolled back toward his car. Standing under the lights in the mist it had gathered a finely beaded coat of matte moisture on it, and looked like--well, it looked like an extremely expensive Mercedes-Benz. Gordon caught himself, just for a millisecond, wishing that he had something like that, but he was now quite adept at fending off that particular line of thought, which only led off in circles and left him feeling depressed and confused.”
--Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Pp. 59-60. Pocket Books: 1987.

PS - I had initially wanted to do my Master’s thesis on the use of Norse mythology in the sequel to this little-read classic by Douglas Adams--The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul--but when I asked “Wild Bill” Harmon, who was universally acknowledged to be willing to advise on just about any fool project, if he would oversee the effort, he looked at me with the gimlet eye and intoned, “Mister iClipse, the Master’s thesis is not an exercise in self-gratification.” Oh, and “Your Sweet Voice” off Matthew Sweet’s 1991 masterpiece, Girlfriend, is a luscious song that I really must draw your attention to; now playing on iTunes.