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By cantstandit17 BRONZE
Northport, New York

A thought. In the endless array of all the thoughts, came one about you. As I think, In they different ways i think, i was thinking about you. As i hope, of all the things i...
cantstandit17 BRONZE, Northport, New York
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#210592 Poetry
By m.fin SILVER
Saint Louis, Missouri
m.fin SILVER, Saint Louis, Missouri
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#210593 Poetry
By Philosophe BRONZE
Chino Hills, California
Philosophe BRONZE, Chino Hills, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can&#039;t see it, it can&#039;t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.<br /> <br /> &quot;More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have &quot;lost&quot;. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.<br /> <br /> &quot;Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in &quot;Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There&#039;s a frood who really knows where his towel is.&quot; (Sass: know, be aware of, meet; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)&quot;<br /> &mdash;<br /> The Hitch-hiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy

#210594 Poetry
By NeverGiveUp1996 BRONZE
Denver, Pennsylvania
NeverGiveUp1996 BRONZE, Denver, Pennsylvania
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We are all perfectly imperfect.&quot;&lt;3

#210595 Poetry
By koala_song BRONZE
Pitttsburgh, Pennsylvania
koala_song BRONZE, Pitttsburgh, Pennsylvania
4 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#210596 Poetry
By VisionsOfDylan GOLD
Springfield, Missouri
VisionsOfDylan GOLD, Springfield, Missouri
14 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;All I can do is be me. Whoever that is.&quot; -Bob Dylan

#210597 Poetry
kenzie_treub DIAMOND, Orlando, Florida
60 articles 0 photos 11 comments
#210598 Poetry
Ally Hinton BRONZE, Phelps, Wisconsin
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#210599 Poetry
By ZackR BRONZE
Jonesboro, Maine
ZackR BRONZE, Jonesboro, Maine
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
The only thing unbearable is that nothing is unbearable

#210600 Poetry
By ColtonBush BRONZE
Greensburg, Kentucky
ColtonBush BRONZE, Greensburg, Kentucky
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
you can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months over-analyzing a situation, try to put the pieces back together, looking at what could&#039;ve would&#039;ve happened, or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on. -Tupac Shakur