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The Deeper Meaning of Liff - by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd (Paperback)

The Deeper Meaning of Liff - by  Douglas Adams & John Lloyd (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A rollicking, thought-provoking dictionary for the modern age, featuring definitions for those things we don't have words for, from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author behind <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>, Douglas Adams, and TV producer John Lloyd. </b> <p/>Does the sensation of <b>Tingrith</b>(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone <b>Ahenny</b>(2)? Can you deal with a<b> Naugatuck</b>(3) without causing a <b>Toronto</b>(4)? Will you suffer from<b> Kettering</b>(5) this summer? <p/> Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn't know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren't--or rather there weren't, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic <b>lacunae</b>(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: <i>The Deeper Meaning of Liff</i>--a whole new solution to the problem of <b>Great Wakering</b>(8) <p/> 1--The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings. <p/> 2--The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. <p/> 3--A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off <br> the corners. <p/> 4--Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can't put on the cover. <p/> 5--The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you've been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair. <p/> 6--God knows what this means <p/> 7--For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago. <p/> 8--Look it up yourself.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Douglas Adams was the bestselling author of many works including <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>, which was turned into a major motion picture. He died in 2001. <p/> John Lloyd is (he says) Britain's most successful television comedy producer since Chaucer and is responsible for <i>Not the Nine O'Clock News</i>, <i>Spitting Image</i>, and B<i>lackadder</i>, among others.

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