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- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. 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 vapors. Use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth. And of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
