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The Ultra-Complete Index to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
written and entirely copyrighted 1992-94 by Mathias Maul
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fifth public release as of 12-mar-1994



Many long years have passed since the publication of Douglas Adams'
masterpiece "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which undoubtedly
initiated a cult. Thousands of people were fascinated by the bunch of
brainless idiots called Zaphod, Ford, Trillian, (Marvin,) and, above all,
Arthur Dent. Thousands of people listened to the radio play and watched the
TV series. Thousands of people read the books five or more times (like
myself). Thousands of people spent seemingly endless years waiting for a
sequel. Millions of other carbon-based life forms had never heard of the
existence of this hallmark in modern literature and died of ignorance.
Well, there was no REAL sequel (Ok, Dirk Gently. It's brilliant. But it
isn't a sequel to the Guide). There was nothing, an impenetrable emptiness,
a complete void. The only things to keep being amused were some Monty
Python sketches Douglas Adams had (probably) taken part in writing (just
think of the Chesterfield Sofa in episode #20 of the Flying Circus or of
his appearance in the last show) and of course his (and many others')
ingenious adventure game 'Bureaucracy' (which is one of the best computer
games ever published on this planet, believe me).

To cut it short, nothing has happened in the last years concerning the
Guide. But now the dull days are over. The time has come to retrieve the
holy books from the golden casket, print out this index (preferably with a
laser printer) and re-read the Guide for the sixth time. And again. And
again. But it will be different this time. By means of this fabulously
amazing index, you will experience a different feeling when reading Adams'
work, you will be transported into higher dimensions of emotion when
listening to Marvin, you will feel a second (or third, depending on your
origin and/or the number of heads regarded as 'normal' in your
neighborhood) head grow when reading about Zaphod, you will simply become
happy.

[I know, most of the above facts are outdated because Douglas Adams --
may all existing, or non-existing, or just believed to be existing, or even
long, long dead (or just lying in hospitals) gods in- or outside of what we
usually refer to as the universe bless him -- finally created the fifth
part of the Guide but as I liked the above paragraphs so much I was
reluctant to delete them.]


But enough of this idle twaddle, let's get into it NOW.