A small wooden armchair draped with a purple knitted blanket sits beside stacked books beneath a hanging crescent moon.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe  ·  1980

Douglas Adams

"Now the world has gone to bed,"

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The world is personified as having gone to bed. The retained line evokes shared nighttime rest without supplying the rest of a song or story.

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