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Life, the Universe, and Everything


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Life, the universe and everything

for Sally

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Chapter 1

The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur
Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.

It wasn't just that the cave was cold, it wasn't just that it was
damp and smelly. It was the fact that the cave was in the middle
of Islington and there wasn't a bus due for two million years.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur
Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a
good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

He was stranded in prehistoric Earth as the result of a complex
sequence of events which had involved him being alternately blown
up and insulted in more bizarre regions of the Galaxy than he
ever dreamt existed, and though his life had now turned very,
very, very quiet, he was still feeling jumpy.

He hadn't been blown up now for five years.

Since he had hardly seen anyone since he and Ford Prefect had
parted company four years previously, he hadn't been insulted in
all that time either.

Except just once.

It had happened on a spring evening about two years previously.