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Book 1
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Subject: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (englisch)
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Douglas Adams
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Douglas Adams So long, and thanks for all the fish
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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for
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Jonny Brock and Clare Gorst
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and all other Arlingtonians
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for tea, sympathy, and a sofa
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
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the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
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yellow sun.
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Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles
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is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-
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descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still
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think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most
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of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.
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Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these
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were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces
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of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small
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green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and
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most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
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Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big
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mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And
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some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no
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one should ever have left the oceans.
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man
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had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be
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nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a
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small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that
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had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the
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world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was
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right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to
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anything.
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Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone
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about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea
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was lost forever.
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This is not her story.
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But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some
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of its consequences.
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It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's
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Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on
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Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or
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heard of by any Earthman.
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Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
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in fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out
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of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no
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Earthman had ever heard either.
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Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly
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successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care
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Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero
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Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of
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philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of
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God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern
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Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted
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the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of
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all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and
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contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate,
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it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important
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respects.
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First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words
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