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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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'Translatorspecs!' Lucy rapped out her order to the lampstand, found the Super Galactic Traveller Magazine stuck in a rack alongside a leaflet about aerobics classes, a list of self-operated washing machine facilities available to SGT passengers, a 132-page form in which to record your personal passenger-satisfaction rating, and a small leaflet entitled: 'What To Do In The Event Of Fire'. Evidently the recommended action was to stay extremely calm and remain cool at all times. You were advised to stay in your cabins and not to fly and contact any of the staff. And, once again, you were admonished to remain relaxed and enjoy the remainder of the flight.'Do you think it's getting colder?' asked Lucy as she tore out the voucher from the magazine.'Anyway,' said Dan, 'I was not ogling Nettle.'Nettie shivered as she waited for the door to the Second Class Area to open. For a brief moment she wished her Gap T-shirt covered her midriff. But then, as the door opened and she stepped through, her mind was swamped by the sight before her. She found herself standing on the main jetty of the Grand Axial Canal, Second Class. It stretched out in front of her, under a simulated sky. Wide columns marked out the elegantly curved walls, and burning braziers dotted the canal embankments. All over the canal, automated gondolas plied lazily back and forth, their robot gondoliers singing pleasantly - a song that brought harmony and peace to the main thoroughfare of the Starship Titanic:'She gave him love!She swung above!She kissed him on his smiling handsome lip.The gondolierSang in her ear:She gave him six pnedes as a tip!'Nettle climbed into the nearest gondola and the singing stopped. 'Take me to the Engine Room,' she said.'Si! Work-Place Chum of Victorious Athletics Coach!' said the gondolier and off they drifted down the Grand Axial Canal.'Tell me,' said Nettie. 'Shouldn't you be singing when you've got a passenger rather than the other way round?'
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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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'Translatorspecs!' Lucy rapped out her order to the lampstand, found the Super Galactic Traveller Magazine stuck in a rack alongside a leaflet about aerobics classes, a list of self-operated washing machine facilities available to SGT passengers, a 132-page form in which to record your personal passenger-satisfaction rating, and a small leaflet entitled: 'What To Do In The Event Of Fire'. Evidently the recommended action was to stay extremely calm and remain cool at all times. You were advised to stay in your cabins and not to fly and contact any of the staff. And, once again, you were admonished to remain relaxed and enjoy the remainder of the flight.'Do you think it's getting colder?' asked Lucy as she tore out the voucher from the magazine.'Anyway,' said Dan, 'I was not ogling Nettle.'Nettie shivered as she waited for the door to the Second Class Area to open. For a brief moment she wished her Gap T-shirt covered her midriff. But then, as the door opened and she stepped through, her mind was swamped by the sight before her. She found herself standing on the main jetty of the Grand Axial Canal, Second Class. It stretched out in front of her, under a simulated sky. Wide columns marked out the elegantly curved walls, and burning braziers dotted the canal embankments. All over the canal, automated gondolas plied lazily back and forth, their robot gondoliers singing pleasantly - a song that brought harmony and peace to the main thoroughfare of the Starship Titanic:'She gave him love!She swung above!She kissed him on his smiling handsome lip.The gondolierSang in her ear:She gave him six pnedes as a tip!'Nettle climbed into the nearest gondola and the singing stopped. 'Take me to the Engine Room,' she said.'Si! Work-Place Chum of Victorious Athletics Coach!' said the gondolier and off they drifted down the Grand Axial Canal.'Tell me,' said Nettie. 'Shouldn't you be singing when you've got a passenger rather than the other way round?'
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