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September 1 - November 25, 2019
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.”
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
“Hey, this is terrific!” he said. “Someone down there is trying to kill us!” “Terrific,” said Arthur. “But don’t you see what this means?” “Yes. We’re going to die.” “Yes, but apart from that.” “Apart from that?” “It means we must be on to something!” “How soon can we get off it?”
I’m fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don’t know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.”
“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
“Because there are some things you have to do even if you are an enlightened liberal cop who knows all about sensitivity and everything!”
R17 is not a fixed velocity, but it is clearly far too fast.
“It’s a very effective way of being wretched,” said Marvin. “Don’t pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me.”
“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. “For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?”
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.
Could certainly explain 2020.
