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416 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
'The purpose of the whole business, you see, is in fact to be the whole business.' (...)
'But surely the purpose of—I mean, wouldn't it be nice if you ended up with some creature that started to think about the universe—?'
'Good gravy, I don't want anything poking around!' said the god testily. 'There's enough patches and stitches in it as it is without some clever devil trying to find more, I can assure you. (...) Intelligence is like legs—too many and you trip yourself up.'
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."