However you choose to live, live well

Veronica Zundel explains what she believes the term ‘lifestyle’ means

Near the beginning of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there is a moment where the hapless hero Arthur Dent remarks: “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.” Unfortunately, this remark slips through a wormhole to a distant galaxy where it floats between two war leaders whose tribes are on the brink of war. Interpreted by one of the leaders as a terrible insult to his mother, it causes a bloodbath. Meanwhile on earth, it is if anything an understatement, as Arthur finds his planet being demolished by a Vogon constructor fleet in order to build an intergalactic superhighway.