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Posting random lines from the 5 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books by Douglas Adams. Bot by @josephwb.bsky.social, using template code from @philna.sh #HHGG #DouglasAdams #DNA Code: https://github.com/josephwb/whalepetunias

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · Jun 5

"What in the name of zarking fardwarks is the old fool doing?" exploded Ford.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1h

I'm afraid you cannot leave," said Zarniwoop, "you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape." He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 2h

"Can we drop your ego for a moment? This is important." "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 4h

Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find his will beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford had learned to play in the hyperspace ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 6h

"That sofa is there because of the space-time instability I've been trying to get your terminally softened brain to get to grips with. It's been washed up out of the continuum, it's space-time jetsam, it doesn't matter what it is, we’ve got to catch it, it's our only way out of here!"

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 8h

In fact he was built the way one builds leather sofas, shiny, lumpy and with lots of solid stuffing. The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked as if its only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 10h

"I can even go and stick my head in a bucket of water if you like. Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one ready. Wait a minute."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 12h

"It has already been hailed, so I gather, as the third most improbable event in the history of the Universe." "What were the first two?" "Oh, probably just coincidences," said Slartibartfast carelessly.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 13h

The truth of the matter is that it would have been a great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinary three-dimensional oblong room, but then the designers would have got miserable.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 17h

"No," said Arthur to one of the natives who had just shuffled some of the letters round in a fit of abysmal dejection, "Q scores ten you see, and it's on a triple word score, so... look, I've explained the rules to you... no no, look please, put down that jawbone... all right, we'll start again."

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 19h

He pulled a card from his pocket. "Do we have..." he put up a hand to hold back the cheers, "do we have a party here from the Zansellquasure Flamarion Bridge Club from beyond the Vortvoid of Qvarne? Are they here?"

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 20h

"And this is Frankie mouse."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 23h

Then Frankie said: "Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?" "Ah!" said Benjy. "Aha, now that does sound promising!" He rolled the phrase around a little.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"Charming man," he said. "I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one..."

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

It seemed odd that someone should come all the way from somewhere ineffable in a chariot that was obviously a vast improvement on the burning fiery one which had brought them the Sandwich Maker, if she didn't even want to be here?

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

It is of course that invaluable companion for all those who want to see the marvels of the known Universe for less than thirty Altairan Dollars a day — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"They'll chase you up a tree and set fire to it."

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

2 Imports: None. It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from. 3 Exports: None. See Imports.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"Who are you?" "A friend!" shouted back the man. He ran towards Zaphod. "Oh yeah?" said Zaphod. "Anyone's friend in particular, or just generally well disposed to people?"

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"You obviously have no conception," said the management consultant, not abandoning testiness in favour of good old fashioned hauteur, "of modern business methods." "And you have no conception of where you are," said Ford.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them. They were the pre-ordained promptings from the dark and locked off parts of his mind.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

Within a matter of seconds the whole event was over. A few blasts from the robots were sufficient to destroy the Lock for ever. It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

with the instinctive correctness that self-preservation instils in the mind, that he mustn't try to think about it, that if he did, the law of gravity would suddenly glance sharply in his direction and demand to know what the hell he thought he was doing up there, and all would suddenly be lost.

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 1d

"Seven and a half million years," said Deep Thought. Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other. "Seven and a half million years...! they cried in chorus. "Yes," declaimed Deep Thought, "I said I'd have to think about it, didn't I?"

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 2d

"You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear." "I beg your pardon?" asked Arthur, rather politely he thought.

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