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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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'LUCY!' exclaimed Dan.'Parrot!' yelled Bolfдss. 'Where is the missing intelligence core for Titania's brain?''Bloody genius!' squawked the parrot.'Don't talk rubbish!' shouted Bolfass.'BLOODY GENIUS!' screamed the parrot.'I ASKED YOU A QUESTION!' yelled Bolfass. It was also according to Yassaccan tradition that parrots were supposed to answer any questions put to them.'Squawk!' The parrot momentarily forgot its powers of speech.'ANSWER MY QUESTION!''SQUAWK!'The parrot flew off into the shadows at the further end of the chamber.'Damn it!' Boll'ass knew it was bad luck if a parrot ref used to answer your question.'I can explain everything,' Lucy was telling Dan.'No! You can't! You can't explain ANYTHING!' screamed Dan. And Lucy suddenly thought: 'He's right! He's absolutely RIGHT!''Perhaps that is your answer!' It was Nettie who had suddenly stepped forward and taken Captain Bolfass by the arm.'Dear lady, it is good of you to trouble yourself with this matter, but I fear the parrot has not given any reply. I am doomed.''Didn't you tell me that this Starship was designed by some genius?''Leovinus!' exclaimed The Journalist. 'He was here on the ship when we crashed on the Earth!''Maybe he has the missing part?' It was all so clear to Nettie, although she didn't know why.Something clicked in The Journalist's mind. 'Of course!' he exclaimed. 'When he ran off the ship - he was brandishing this glowing silver strip in his hand...''The central core intelligence!' exclaimed Bolfass.'That's why it isn't on the ship?''So...' Captain Bolfass was putting two and two together but rather slowly.'In order to get the missing central intelligence core for the ship's system, we've got to find this Leovinus character.' Nettie had decided to take over the deduction process. 'Leovinus is on the Earth. But we can't get to the Earth because we don't know where it is, and the only way to find out where it is, is to get hold of the missing central intelligence core and refit it into Titania's brain. Gentlemen. We're screwed.'
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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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'LUCY!' exclaimed Dan.'Parrot!' yelled Bolfдss. 'Where is the missing intelligence core for Titania's brain?''Bloody genius!' squawked the parrot.'Don't talk rubbish!' shouted Bolfass.'BLOODY GENIUS!' screamed the parrot.'I ASKED YOU A QUESTION!' yelled Bolfass. It was also according to Yassaccan tradition that parrots were supposed to answer any questions put to them.'Squawk!' The parrot momentarily forgot its powers of speech.'ANSWER MY QUESTION!''SQUAWK!'The parrot flew off into the shadows at the further end of the chamber.'Damn it!' Boll'ass knew it was bad luck if a parrot ref used to answer your question.'I can explain everything,' Lucy was telling Dan.'No! You can't! You can't explain ANYTHING!' screamed Dan. And Lucy suddenly thought: 'He's right! He's absolutely RIGHT!''Perhaps that is your answer!' It was Nettie who had suddenly stepped forward and taken Captain Bolfass by the arm.'Dear lady, it is good of you to trouble yourself with this matter, but I fear the parrot has not given any reply. I am doomed.''Didn't you tell me that this Starship was designed by some genius?''Leovinus!' exclaimed The Journalist. 'He was here on the ship when we crashed on the Earth!''Maybe he has the missing part?' It was all so clear to Nettie, although she didn't know why.Something clicked in The Journalist's mind. 'Of course!' he exclaimed. 'When he ran off the ship - he was brandishing this glowing silver strip in his hand...''The central core intelligence!' exclaimed Bolfass.'That's why it isn't on the ship?''So...' Captain Bolfass was putting two and two together but rather slowly.'In order to get the missing central intelligence core for the ship's system, we've got to find this Leovinus character.' Nettie had decided to take over the deduction process. 'Leovinus is on the Earth. But we can't get to the Earth because we don't know where it is, and the only way to find out where it is, is to get hold of the missing central intelligence core and refit it into Titania's brain. Gentlemen. We're screwed.'
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