@dlowan,
Are you sure??? -
' " They were eventually forced to administer a drug to make him tell the truth, a truth drug."
His eyes rolled helplessly in his head.
"They gave him too much," he said in a tiny whimper. "They gave him much too much." He started to cry. (...)
"And when the trial continued," he said in a weeping whisper, "they asked Prak a most unfortunate thing. They asked him," he paused and shivered, "to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth. Only, don't you see?"
He suddenly hoisted himself up on to his elbows again and shouted at them.
"They'd given him much too much of the drug!"
He collapsed again, moaning quietly. "Much too much too much too much too ..."
The group gathered round his bedside glanced at each other. there were goose pimples on backs.
"What happened?" said Zaphod at last.
"Oh, he told it all right," said the man savagely, "for all I know he's still telling it now. Strange, terrible things ... terrible, terrible!" he screamed.
They tried to calm him, but he struggled to his elbows again.
"Terrible things, incomprehensible things," he shouted, "things that would drive a man mad!"
He stared wildly at them.
"Or in my case," he said, "half-mad. I'm a journalist."
"You mean," said Arthur quietly, "that you are used to confronting the truth?"
"No," said the man with a puzzled frown. "I mean that I made an excuse and left early." '
- from Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.
