But it is also as though Douglas Adams is speaking to you personally, gently, as he guides you through a perplexing world, assuring you "Don't panic".
The words, it seems, are but steppingstones to a universal pattern of images and insights about human behavior and the perplexing world that thwarts and shapes it.
Working largely from a laptop on her dining room table, she has looked deep into the perplexing world of childhood food allergies and seen a conspiracy that threatens the health of America's children.
Yet it may be some years, experts say, before scientists are able to link the findings from genetic studies and brain research with the outer signs of the perplexing world that people with autism inhabit.
It would have been difficult for our ancestors, in the face of a perplexing and complex world, to resist applying one of the few systematic, and highly successful, modes of explanation in their possession.
Toto produces some of the pleasantest and, for foreigners, most perplexing toilets in the world.Who could resist the firm's "Washlet", with inbuilt bidets (for both men and women), dryers and heated seats?
A perplexing truth about the world of publishing is that it is incredibly small.
Björn emerges as a kind of workaholic Bartleby, the inverse of Melville's famous naysayer, a fugitive being, perplexing and perplexed, unable to explain himself, incapable of feeling at ease in the world, and destined to be alone.
The family had coached him on his A.C.T.s, and he still stopped by to consult about perplexing pieces of the grownup world — student loans or car insurance.
He's been one of the world's most perplexing pop performers for more than 30 years, a rakish character with a slippery-smooth voice who never seems to believe the words he's singing.
This was perplexing; with the rest of the world, I had read and watched the extensive news coverage of the 2010 earthquake, including the distribution of hundreds of thousands of mosquito nets to these same communities I was now visiting.
