“Towel Day” To Honor Douglas Adams

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UNITED KINGDOM (GaeaTimes.com)- Its been nine years now that the world has witnessed the death of author Douglas Adams, but this does not mean that the people have stopped celebrating “Towel Day” in his honor. At two weeks following the death of the writer of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in the year 200, his fans got together on the 25th of May and till today the tradition has been carried forward by the future generations.

The book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was an adaption of Britain’s popular radio series by the same name. Douglas Adams gained so much fame after the novel went into publication in the 1970s that he came to be referred as one of the most popular writers of humorous literature. However all of that was a long time ago and his sudden death at the age of 49 saddened fans across the world. It was D. Clyde Williamson who first proposed the idea of the “Towel Day” two weeks after the author’s death announcing that on the 25th of May every man who was a fan of Douglas Adams should carry a towel with himself. The towel was a sign of encouragement to the other people, the towel being used as a tool to attract the other people to the author’s novels.

The question which is often asked is that why is a towel used as a tool by the fans? Douglas Adams himself explains why in his most popular book. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” says that the towel is the most useful thing in a hitchhiker’s life. It can be used for a variety of chores in everyday life. Today is “Towel Day” and all of us should be with a copy of Douglas Adams’s book.