Zbohom a vdaka za ryby je stvrta kniha z patdielnej “trilogie” Stoparovho sprievodcu galaxiou z pera Douglasa Adamsa. Nazov knihy je odkaz, ktory ludstvu zanechali delfini kratko pred svojim odletom zo Zeme, ktora bola odstranena vogonskou flotilou, aby uvolnila miesto hyperpriestorovemu obchvatu. Slovne spojenie si oblubili niektori fanusikovia sci-fi a pouzivaju ju ako svojske rozlucenie. V knihe Arthur Dent stopuje galaxiou a dostane sa az na planetu, ktora vo vsetkom pripomina pozemske Anglicko, napriek tomu, ze bol jedinym pozemskym svedkom znicenia celej planety Vogonmi.
Douglas Noel Adams (11 marec 1952 – 11 maj 2001) bol anglicky spisovatel a dramatic. Je znamy predovsetkym ako autor Stoparovho sprievodcu galaxiou, ktory zacal v roku 1978 ako rozhlasova komedialna hra BBC. Stoparov sprievodca sa neskor zmenil na kniznu ”trilogiu”pozostavajucu z piatich knih, neskor inspiroval televizny serial, niekolko divadelnych hier, komiks, pocitacovu hru a film.
Kazdy rok 25. maja je Uterakovy den (Towel Day), ktorym si fanusikovia pripominaju Douglasa Adamsa. Pripomienka autora a jeho diela sa konala prvykrat v roku 2001, dva tyzdne po jeho smrti.
Uterak, hovori Sprievodca, je nepochybne najdolezitejsou vecou, aku moze mat hviezdny stopar pri sebe. Ciastocne je to pre jeho cisto prakticku hodnotu – mozete sa don zababusit, aby vam nebola zima, ked sa plahocite po chladnych mesiacoch Jagalanu Beta, mozete si nan lahnut na niektorej z oslnivo krasnych plazi Santraginu Pat, kam ste prisli vychutnavat omamnu vonu mora, mozete sa nim prikryt, ked spite pod krvavocervenymi hviezdami pustnej planety Kakrafun, mozete ho vyuzit ako provizornu plachtu pri splavovani pomalej velrieky Mof, namocit ho pre boj zblizka, omotat si ho okolo hlavy, aby ste sa chranili pred jedovatymi vyparmi alebo pohladom pahltneho pucivala z Tralu. (Je to neuveritelne sprosty tvor. Mysli si, ze ak ho nevidite, ani on nemoze vidiet vas - tupy ako poleno, ale hrozne, hrozne pazravy.) V pripade nebezpecenstva mozete uterakom mavat, aby ste privolali pomoc, no a, pravdaze, mozete ho pouzit aj na utieranie - ak vam po tom vsetkom pripada dost cisty.
Co je vsak este dolezitejsie, uterak ma nevycislitelnu psychologicku hodnotu. Ktovie preco, ale ak domased (nestopar) zisti, ze stopar ma so sebou uterak, bude automaticky predpokladat, ze ma aj zubnu kefku, frote rukavicu na umyvanie, mydlo, plechovku biskvitov, ploskacku, kompas, mapu, klbko spagatu, sprej proti hmyzu, prsiplast, skafander a tak dalej. Ba co viac, celkom rad pozicia ktorukolvek z tychto a inych veci, ktore stopar „nestastnou nahodou stratil“. Domased si totiz pomysli, ze clovek, ktory dokaze prestopovat galaxiu krizom-krazom, prekonat nespocetne prekazky a stale vediet, kde ma uterak, jednoducho stoji za to.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The phrase has since been adopted by some science fiction fans as a humorous way to say "goodbye".
Arthur Dent has hitch-hiked through the galaxy and is dropped off on a planet that remarkably resembles England on Earth, even though he saw it destroyed by the Vogons.
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.
Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute by fans of the author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author, as referred to in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001.
A towel, The Guide says, 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 vapours; 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't see it, it can'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.
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 "lost". 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.
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A hlavne..
So Long, Douglas.. And Thanks for All the Fish.