Butterfly42

I’m thinking of Douglas Adams . On one occasion he said ‘ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by’ and here in my office I hear the beginnings of a small whoosh. I remember reading in The Salmon of Doubt. . I’m sure it was the Salmon of Doubt but I can’t check because I lent it to someone and I can’t remember who… that once his publisher was so desperate for a book who’s deadline was extremely overdue that he (the publisher) camped out at the bottom of Douglas’s stairs, not letting him out until he had delivered the manuscript, which he did page by page. I'm not at that stage yet.. I think.. Coincidently while ferreting around my hard drive valiantly looking for something that was relevant for my deadline I came across the link to a 1999 article How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet ( don’t know why the question marks in diamonds are there ). It’s here that I originally found his quotation about ‘the way thin...