By Douglas Adams
Again on the earth with not anything extra to teach for his lengthy, unusual journey via time and area than a ratty towel and a plastic buying bag, Arthur Dent is able to think that the previous 8 years have been all only a figment of his stressed-out mind's eye. yet a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the invention of his battered reproduction of The Hitchhiker’s advisor to the Galaxy all conspire to provide Arthur the sneaking suspicion that whatever otherworldly is certainly going on.
God basically understands what all of it skill. thankfully, He left in the back of a last Message of rationalization. yet on the grounds that it’s light-years clear of Earth, on a celebrity surrounded via memento compartments, checking out what it really is will suggest hitching a trip to the a long way reaches of house aboard a flying saucers with an incredible robotic. yet what else is new?
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News You Can Use, the peculiar link between consumption and identity, professional athletes who strike, Cokie Roberts, the Lazarus-like resuscitations of Geraldo Rivera’s career, and the demise of the Washington Redskins as a team to be reckoned with all gave me pause and even some anxiety regarding the general course of Western society. However, these issues seemed insufficient to justify a renunciation of continental comfort. I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.
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