The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences…
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“incitful?”
absolutely, my spelling is tremendously crap sometimes. Thanks for pointing that out will fix it.
don’t forget to bring a towel.
yeah i won’t :)
42!
Um…how can it be a TRILOGY if it has FIVE parts????
Everyone knows its the “Increasingly Innacuratly Titled” Hitchiker’s Trilogy
the trilogy thing… basically H2G2 was meant to be a trilogy but to our great fortune it bacame known as the ‘five part trilogy’. All a part of D. Adams’ humour. And it tickles me so… It almost became a six part but unfortunately the great man passed on :(
No ? Douglas Adams is dead ?
Damned ! Zut ! Et l’on ne m’a rien dit…
yes my friend, I was horrified when I found out. Read ‘The Salmon of Doubt’. It gives you a great look into who he was and how he thought about the world. It also has parts of another book he started wirting, a few short stories, a speach he gave to scientists on god and evolution and a few other theories. That and a few eulogies from his closest and dearest.
Improbability drive ruless!
What is the word for something with five parts? A pentalogy? Yeah, that’s it.
“So now I’m stuck with a manically depressed robot.”
“You think you’ve got problems? What do you do if you are a manically depressed robot?”
I love it!!h
Radio shows are the best, followed by the books. :)
REQUIESCATE IN PACE Douglas…...