Adams, Douglas -- Dirk Gently No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 1 (1988)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “as pretty as an airport.” Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 1 (1988)
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Opening words.

Variant: "It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear."

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Adams, Douglas -- Dirk Gently No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 1 (1988)