People
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
— Douglas Adams ‧ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a comic character sketch built from a list of contradictions. The description praises adventure and flair, hedges about possible crookedness, then admits a talent for self-promotion and a poor record with relationships, ending on the idiom "out to lunch" for seeming completely scatterbrained.
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