Mike's Pith & Wind cont.
.. think to assume that atheists have none of the virtues espoused by Christianity or any of the other established religions, is to assume that these virtues are unique to religion.
Crikey! How did we get here? I started off with pessimism didn’t I? Getting back to Eeyore; I think he would be grimly satisfied that the Little Book of Gloom, with scarcely any text to speak of, manages to have a blatent typo less than half-a-dozen pages in.
‘Typical’ he’d say, ‘That’s just what would happen.’

Post Script
By way of vindication for my comparing Marvin to Eeyore, I'm currently reading the 'official' biography of Douglas Adams, Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb, and, bugger me!, there on page 102 is the following: 'From the literary point of view Marvin was closer to Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh. Douglas confessed that he found this melancholy animal inspirational. Years later, when he read Winnie the Pooh to his daughter, Polly, he was struck again by how very similar Marvin and Eeyore were in tone.'