A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face. "So we're not home and dry," he said.
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"Arthur," said Ford.
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Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply.
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A tall figure appeared silhouetted in the hatchway. It walked down the ramp and stood in front of Arthur.
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Ford looked angrily at him.
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"I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy," insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on."
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"I would like you to shut up about your towel," said Ford.
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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
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"Now the world has gone to bed,"
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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
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“That young girl,” he added unexpectedly, “is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.”
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The air was clear and scented, the breeze flitted lightly through the tall grass around his cave, the birds were chirruping at each other, the butterflies were flitting about prettily, and the whole of nature seemed to be conspiring to be as pleasant as it possibly could.
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The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other, because neither of them was currently a particularly engaging sight, and nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul.
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They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.
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"What was that?" hissed Arthur.
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