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Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy.
‘I don’t want to die now!’ he yelled. ‘I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!’
‘This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I’ve settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I’ll start panicking!’
‘You know,’ said Arthur, ‘it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.’ ‘Why, what did she tell you?’ ‘I don’t know, I didn’t listen.’
‘Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God I’m so depressed.
‘Can we drop your ego for a moment? This is important.’ ‘If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.’ Zaphod glared at her again, then laughed.
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?
‘I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.’
‘Do you want me to kick you?’ said Ford. ‘Would it give you a lot of pleasure?’ said Zaphod, blearily. ‘No.’ ‘Nor me. So what’s the point? Stop bugging me.’
