G&T to the rescue

Actually, given that I am at this very moment enjoying a generously sized and absolutely sublime G&T, perhaps this quote from Life, The Universe, and Everything, which directly precedes the previous one, would have been much more appropriate to post:

"I thought you must be dead ..." [Arthur] said simply.
"So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."
Arthur cleared his throat, and then did it again.
"Where," he said, "did you ...?"
"Find a gin and tonic?" said Ford brightly. "I found a small lake that thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least, I think it thought it was a gin and tonic."
"I may," he added with a grin which would have sent sane men scampering into trees, "have been imagining it."