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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul • 1988

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The observation gives impossibility a kind of consistency that mere improbability can lack. It is a paradoxical comparison of two judgments, rather than a proof that a particular impossible event can happen.

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