IkeaBoy
08-02-2001, 08:21 AM
"[A towel] has great practical value. You can wrapt it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the billiant marbe-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the beady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so readily on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet if 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; 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 discovers that a hithchiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that his is also in possession of other things. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchiker might accidentally have "lost." "
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hithchiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that his is also in possession of other things. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchiker might accidentally have "lost." "