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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Chapter 30

By Douglas Adams

Chapter 30

Meanwhile, back to Arthur and Slartibartfast.
Slartibartfast finishes the story: Earth was a giant computer, with all the life on it part of the program. And it was five minutes away from giving an answer when the Vogons came and destroyed it.
That's a real stupid way for a planet to go, Slartibartfast agrees. However, rather than worry about things like that, he would prefer to just keep busy making fjords.
In Earth Two, for example, he's been given Africa to do, and he's decided to do it all with fjords, even though people complain that that's not accurate.
Slartibartfast tells Arthur that it's time to meet the mice. We were hoping that it was time to meet the fjords.
This announcement causes Arthur to reflect: "'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' he muttered to himself" (30.20).

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