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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · Jun 5

"What in the name of zarking fardwarks is the old fool doing?" exploded Ford.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1h

It is of course that invaluable companion for all those who want to see the marvels of the known Universe for less than thirty Altairan Dollars a day — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 3h

"They'll chase you up a tree and set fire to it."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 5h

2 Imports: None. It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from. 3 Exports: None. See Imports.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 7h

"Who are you?" "A friend!" shouted back the man. He ran towards Zaphod. "Oh yeah?" said Zaphod. "Anyone's friend in particular, or just generally well disposed to people?"

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 8h

"You obviously have no conception," said the management consultant, not abandoning testiness in favour of good old fashioned hauteur, "of modern business methods." "And you have no conception of where you are," said Ford.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 9h

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 13h

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them. They were the pre-ordained promptings from the dark and locked off parts of his mind.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 15h

Within a matter of seconds the whole event was over. A few blasts from the robots were sufficient to destroy the Lock for ever. It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 17h

with the instinctive correctness that self-preservation instils in the mind, that he mustn't try to think about it, that if he did, the law of gravity would suddenly glance sharply in his direction and demand to know what the hell he thought he was doing up there, and all would suddenly be lost.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 19h

"Seven and a half million years," said Deep Thought. Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other. "Seven and a half million years...! they cried in chorus. "Yes," declaimed Deep Thought, "I said I'd have to think about it, didn't I?"

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 21h

"You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear." "I beg your pardon?" asked Arthur, rather politely he thought.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 23h

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor — at least no one worth speaking of.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

He wondered what to do about it. He started to pluck up more handsful of the scrubby dried grass that was to be found here and there. He was worried, though, that if he ventured nearer to the vomit he might simply add to it rather than clear it up.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"I know how you feel," said Zaphod, "I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he said. "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"You," he spat. He staggered to his feet and stomped off to find a chair to slump into. He found one and slumped into it.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?"

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you're halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it's going to hurt if you fail to miss it.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

If any of them had chosen to look out of the window at that moment they would have been startled by the sight of Ford Prefect dropping past them to his certain death and flicking V-signs at them.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

For an instant Halfrunt's smile flickered.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"We're going," he said excitedly, and shivered with energy.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

He sighed and smiled. "Where were we?" "You were calling me Fenny, and I was about to ask you not to."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"Thank you very much," said Mr Prosser who no longer knew how to play this at all, "thank you very much, yes, that's very kind..." He frowned, then smiled, then tried to do both at once, failed, grasped hold of his fur hat and rolled it fitfully round the top of his head.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny expermental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 2d

They all looked to Thrashbarg, but he was on his knees mumbling and looking very firmly up into the sky and not catching anybody else's eye until he'd thought of something.