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Shelob · 02-23-2005, 01:02 PM

The menu for the Restaurant at the End of the Middleearth quotes, by permission, a paage from The Hitchhiker's Guide to Middleearth. The Pasage is this:

The history of almost every major Middle Earth Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiery and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
For Instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?", and teh third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?"
The lone exception to these three stages is the Hobbit Civilization, which lept straight from the How phase to the previously unrecorded What stage. This fourth stage is best characterized by the question "What about breakfast?"

02-23-2005, 01:02 PM	#14
Shelob Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: At the abysmal Abyss Mall. Posts: 276	The menu for the Restaurant at the End of the Middleearth quotes, by permission, a paage from The Hitchhiker's Guide to Middleearth. The Pasage is this: The history of almost every major Middle Earth Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiery and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For Instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?", and teh third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?" The lone exception to these three stages is the Hobbit Civilization, which lept straight from the How phase to the previously unrecorded What stage. This fourth stage is best characterized by the question "What about breakfast?" __________________ A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name ~Evan Esar. Pan for Everyone!