I really enjoyed the writing of the late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galazy series. He had a nice twist with words. Besides the quote above, my favorite line was a description of an alien spacecraft as "hanging in the air the way a brick doesn't." When I was taking a writing course at Brown University while I was on sabbatical in Rhode Island, I mentioned that quote and got the blankest stares.
PS -- The beach scene is particularly appealing because it is 8:24 AM and 5 degrees (-15 C) here in the Dells.
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I love Terry Prachett for exactly the same reasons :-) Wyrd Sisters and any of his fiction dealing with the witches is delightful :-)
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