The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever

Thanks to Collins Dictionary 

Title: The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever

Author: Not known 

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (H2G2 #3)

The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever takes up a whole fleet of lorries (trucks if you speak American) even though it is microstored. Which might be a word invented in 1982 before proper micro storage was actually available. Why is this dictionary stored in lorries/trucks? Does it have to be ferried from place to place? If so, why? We never find out.

Although if you want to know the meaning of the word ‘vollued’ it might be easier to consult Squornshellous Swamptalk which is focused on the mattress languages of Squornshellous Zeta. Unless there’s anyone else living there, which I suppose there might be.

Obviously there’s a mention here of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (not The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), which Trillian consults when she is trying to find something to distract Zaphod from his grumps. She fails. She leaves. And of course a mention of the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

And not to forget The Sidereal Daily Mentioner’s Book of Popular Galactic History which also features in Life, the Universe and Everything. A sort of popular history as reported by The Daily Mail perhaps. 

Plus the Songs of the Long Land, widely regarded as the finest poems in existence. The poet Lallafa lived in the forests of the Long Lands of Effa, and wrote his poems on dried habra leaves. I’m not mad for poetry myself, but Songs of the Long Land somehow sound rather wonderful.

Thanks to Living Levels Magor Marsh SSSI