The stories had claimed that people in the area had been "terrorized" by some repulsively deformed "goblinlike" creature who regularly broke out of the Woodshead and committed an impressively wide range of unspeakable acts.
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Rumors, Monsters, Fear, Exaggeration, Storytelling
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“Things had certainly come down a long way since the great days of Faust and Mephistopheles, when a man could gain all the knowledge of the universe, achieve all the ambitions of his mind and all the pleasures of the flesh for the price of his soul.” Douglas Adams
Literature, Knowledge, Ambition, Soul, Decline
Douglas Adams Literature, Knowledge, Ambition, Soul, Decline“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.” Douglas Adams
Knowledge, Futility, Occupation, Perspective, Resignation
Douglas Adams Knowledge, Futility, Occupation, Perspective, Resignation“One, a young man, was tall, thin and angular; even muffled inside a heavy dark coat he walked a little like an affronted heron. The.” Douglas Adams
Description, Character, Imagery, Humor, Observation
Douglas Adams Description, Character, Imagery, Humor, Observation“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.” Douglas Adams
Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective
Douglas Adams Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” Douglas Adams
Destiny, Journey, Life, Serendipity, Wisdom
Douglas Adams Destiny, Journey, Life, Serendipity, Wisdom“Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.” Douglas Adams
Animals, Behavior, Humor, Advice, Observation
Douglas Adams Animals, Behavior, Humor, Advice, Observation“The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.” Douglas Adams
Religion, Vulnerability, Airports, Conversion, Human Psychology
Douglas Adams Religion, Vulnerability, Airports, Conversion, Human Psychology“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.” Douglas Adams
Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence
Douglas Adams Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII – and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Evolution, Perception, Computers, Internet
Douglas Adams Technology, Evolution, Perception, Computers, Internet“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.” Douglas Adams
Curiosity, Cats, Humor, Science, Observation
Douglas Adams Curiosity, Cats, Humor, Science, Observation“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams
Flying, Humor, Absurdity, Perspective, Learning
Douglas Adams Flying, Humor, Absurdity, Perspective, Learning“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Responsibility, Morality, Medical Absurdity, Self-justification
Douglas Adams Humor, Responsibility, Morality, Medical Absurdity, Self-justification“There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.” Douglas Adams
Problem-solving, Perspective, Simplicity, Wisdom, Optimism
Douglas Adams Problem-solving, Perspective, Simplicity, Wisdom, Optimism“The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Frustration, Consumerism, Humor, Compatibility
Douglas Adams Technology, Frustration, Consumerism, Humor, Compatibility“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.” Douglas Adams
Music, Composers, Humanity, Universe, Perspective
Douglas Adams Music, Composers, Humanity, Universe, Perspective“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.” Douglas Adams
Detective Work, Logic, Investigation, Impossibility, Methodology
Douglas Adams Detective Work, Logic, Investigation, Impossibility, Methodology“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” Douglas Adams
Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.” Douglas Adams
Nobility, Triviality, Perspective, Criticism, Language
Douglas Adams Nobility, Triviality, Perspective, Criticism, Language