The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (The Deeper Meaning of Liff ) is the title of a humorous book of 1983 by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, which contains a selection of place names, define the states, things or feelings, for which there is in the English language are no name / was. The book was written in September 1982 during the visit of both authors on the island of Malibu and released in 1983 by Pan Books.

Reception

The book did not reach the success of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but still managed to # 4 on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times and got almost all good reviews - although the authors have often been accused of plagiarism. Paul Jennings had in fact had in his essay Ware, Wye and Watford same idea back in the 50s. In 1990 The Deeper Meaning of Liff, which added the words collection from The Meaning of Liff and was equipped with illustrations.

Background

• In Germany, published in 1992, an adaptation of the book called The deeper meaning of the Labenz by Sven Böttcher, which connects the translated definitions with place names that have an adequate comic effect in Germany.
• Almost simultaneously with The Meaning of Liff and the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life appeared ( engl. The Meaning of Life ), which contains in its title fade a brief allusion. Short to see is the " LIFF " before a flash adds the missing semicolon to a " LIFE ".

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