We’re Taking Our Ball and Going Home, not liking how the game’s being played just now. AP

Douglas Adams, Author of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Dies at 49, which is my age. “I was hitchhiking around Europe in 1971, when I was 18, with this copy of ‘A

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe,”’ he said.

“At one point I found myself lying in the middle of a field, a little bit drunk, when

it occurred to me that somebody should write a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

It didn’t occur to me that it might actually be me years later.” New York Times