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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1979
“My God,” complained Arthur, “you’re talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven’t even had your planet demolished today.”
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Arthur is angry at cheerful advice that ignores what his day has been like. Losing a whole planet makes talk of a good attitude sound absurd. The scale of his loss turns a familiar complaint about easy optimism into a huge comic protest.
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