"Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker Radioscripts - episode 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Adams Douglas)

Hitch Hiker's Guide has already {surplanted} the great
'Encyclopedia Galactica' as the standard repository of all
knowledge and wisdom, because although it has many
omissions, contains much that is {apocryful}, or at least
wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more
pedestrian work in two important ways; first, it is
slightly cheaper, and second, it has the words 'Don't
panic' inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
To tell the story of the book, it's best to tell the story
of some of the minds behind it. A human, from the planet
Earth, was one of them, though as our story opens, he no
more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of
the East India Company. His name is Arthur Dent, he is a
six-foot tall ape decendant, and someone is trying to drive
a bypass through his home.

PROSSER: Come off it, Mr. Dent, you can't win you know!
Look, there's no point in lying down in the path of
progress!

ARTHUR: I got off the idea of progress. It's overrated!

PROSSER: But you must realise that you can't lie in front
of the bulldozers indefinitly!

ARTHUR: I'm game. We'll see who rusts first.

PROSSER: I'm afraid you'll gonna have to accept it! This
bypass has got to be built, and it is going to be built!
Nothing you can say or do...

ARTHUR: Why is it got to be built?

PROSSER: What do you mean? 'Why is it got to be built?' It
is a bypass! You've got to build bypasses!

ARTHUR: Didn't anyone consider the alternatives?

PROSSER: There aren't any alternatives, but gee, {why
didn't you} make any suggestions or protests at the
appropriate time?

ARTHUR: Appropriate time?

PROSSER: Yes!

ARTHUR: First I knew about it was when a workman arrived at
the door yesterday! I asked him if he had come to clean the
windows, and he said he'd come to demolish the house! He
didn't tell me straight away, of course. No, first he wiped