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Africa-Press – Seychelles. <\/strong><\/span>Did you know that today, May 25, we celebrate Towel Day? You must be wondering what this celebration is about.<\/p>\n

So as a tribute to author Douglas Adams,all his fans will be carrying around a towel with them everywhere they go. As strange as it may sound, this gesture is to celebrate the late author and his well-known classic novel series \u2018A Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy\u2019.<\/p>\n

In the first novel, it is said that the most important thing to carry with you on a trip around the universe is a towel.\u201cA towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value \u2014 you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon\u2026\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Douglas Adams, who was born in the United Kingdom, died suddenly on May 11, 2001. Two weeks later, a group of his fans who had read his books decided to honour him by openly carrying a towel as a reference to their favorite novel series. This continued annually, where his fans joined the celebrations and also included more gestures such as sleeping under the stars on a towel or answering only to the names of the book\u2019s characters.<\/p>\n

The inspiration of writing such a world-recognised book came to Douglas one night as he was drunkenly gazing at the stars with a copy of \u2018The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to Europe\u2019.<\/p>\n

So if you spot a stranger carrying a towel around their neck today for no apparent reason\u2012take a photo with them and post it on social media with the #towelday to join the world in celebrating this author and his renowned novel. Don\u2019t be alarmed if you hear someone shouting \u201cDon\u2019t panic!\u201d or if your questions are answered with \u201c42\u201d and nothing else. These are just some of the ways Adams\u2019 fans demonstrate their love of the book.<\/p>\n

Have a read of this novel series if you\u2019re interested in following the intriguing story it depicts and joining this reading community\u2019s inside jokes!<\/p>\n

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