Hurra! You will love it. I've actually memorized the first whole page.googlyfrog wrote:Robodude, you're gonna be so proud of me. I read the intro to THGTTG today. It wasn't too bad, in fact, it was good. But don't even get me started on the first chapter...ugh.
I swear I just did that by memory.THGTTG wrote: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies an unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of approximately 38 million miles is a little blue-green planet who's ape desentand life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were offered to this problem, many of them having to do with the movement of little green pieces of paper, which is funny, because it wasn't the little pieces of paper that were unhappy. Many people were of the increasing opinion that they should have never come out of the trees, and some thought that the trees had been a bad move, and no one should have ever left the ocean.
And so the problem remained: many people were mean, most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if every one were nice to each other for a change, a little girl sitting in a cafe in Ricksmanworth suddenly new what had been going wrong this whole time, and how to make the world a good and happy place to live again.
Unfortunately, before she could get to a phone and tell anyone about the idea, a stupid catastophy accord, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
Wow. I really have a problem....
--Texas!
