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"Hey, this is terrific!" Zaphod said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific,' said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We are going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?"
-- Zaphod and Arthur in a certain death situation over Magrathea.

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he can. (The High Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Sometimes you have more perspective than the situation, sometimes the situation has more perspective than you.