I am currently rereading The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett.
I am only at the very top of page 3 and it has already made me laugh out loud.
"We may find out why.
We may find out why mankind is here, although that is more complicated and begs the question 'Where else should we be?' It would be terrible to think that some impatient deity might part the clouds and say, 'Damn, are you lot still here? I thought you discovered slood ten thousand years ago! I've got ten trillion tons of ice arriving on Monday!'
We may even find out why the duck billed platypus.* "
*Not why it is _anything_. Just why it is.
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