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it.

"Still," he said, "you are ready for your task?"

"Yes."

"Good. Destroy the ship immediately."

"What about Beeblebrox?"

"Well," said Halfrunt brightly, "Zaphod's just this guy, you
know?"

He vanished from the screen.

The Vogon Captain pressed a communicator button which connected
him with the remains of his crew.

"Attack," he said.

At that precise moment Zaphod Beeblebrox was in his cabin
swearing very loudly. Two hours ago, he had said that they would
go for a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
whereupon he had had a blazing row with the ship's computer and
stormed off to his cabin shouting that he would work out the
Improbability factors with a pencil.

The Heart of Gold's Improbability Drive made it the most powerful
and unpredictable ship in existence. There was nothing it
couldn't do, provided you knew exactly how improbable it was that
the thing you wanted it to do would ever happen.

He had stolen it when, as President, he was meant to be launching
it. He didn't know exactly why he had stolen it, except that he
liked it.

He didn't know why he had become President of the Galaxy, except
that it seemed a fun thing to be.

He did know that there were better reasons than these, but that
they were buried in a dark, locked off section of his two brains.
He wished the dark, locked off section of his two brains would go
away because they occasionally surfaced momentarily and put
strange thoughts into the light, fun sections of his mind and
tried to deflect him from what he saw as being the basic business
of his life, which was to have a wonderfully good time.

At the moment he was not having a wonderfully good time. He had
run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.