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De fleste lesere kommer ikke lenger enn til omvendt refleksiv plagal futurum semikondisjonalis forsettlig konjunktiv før de gir opp; og i nyere utgaver av boka er alle sider etter dette avsnittet blanke for å spare trykkeutgifter.
'One's never alone with a rubber duck.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Arthur and Trillian had the fixed expressions of rabbits on a night road who think that the best way of dealing with approaching headlights is to stare them out.
The Universe - some information to help you live in it.
1 Area: Infinite.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite".
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
He smiled a tight little smile which Zaphod wanted to hit with a brick.
"Delay?" he cried. "Have you seen the world outside this ship? It's a wasteland, a desert. Civilization's been and gone, man. There are no lemon-soaked paper napkins on the way from anywhere!"
"The statistical likelihood," continued the autopilot primly, "is that other civilizations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. Till then there will be a short delay. Please return to your seat."
"Ah..."
"I'll tell you the story. Would you like to hear it?"
"Er..."
"Hey, er, why can't I see you?" he said. "Why aren't you here?"
"I am here," said the voice slowly. "My body wanted to come but it's a bit busy at the moment. Things to do, people to see." After what seemed like a sort of ethereal sigh it added, "You know how it is with bodies."
Zaphod wasn't sure about this.
"I thought I did," he said.