Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

Other by Douglas Adams

Released 1 May 2002

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CD 1
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Prologue: "Anything that happens, happens." / Chapter 1: "The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, ..."
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Chapter 1 (continued): "Click, hum. The huge grey Grebulon reconnaissance ship moved silently through the black void."
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Chapter 1 (continued): "This made the whole problem very simple to deal with."
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Chapter 1 (continued): "Before it blanked out for good the ship would have to pass on those instructions, ..." / Chapter 2: "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living."
2:55
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Chapter 2 (continued): "Spring is over-rated."
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Chapter 2 (continued): "The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit."
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Chapter 2 (continued): "She sat on a chair in the lobby, under a kentia palm, and opened the little cellophane-windowed envelope."
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Chapter 2 (continued): "Gail Andrews was a well groomed woman in her mid-forties."
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Chapter 2 (continued): "They went through it all a couple more times till Tricia was certain that everything that possibly could be clear was as clear as it possibly could be."
3:29
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Chapter 2 (continued): "As she was getting into the elevator Tricia, slightly preoccupied, realised she had left her bag in her room..."
2:45
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Chapter 2 (continued): "Tricia felt as if she had been kicked in the back of the head. She blinked."
2:35
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Chapter 2 (continued): "A tiny security camera up behind the bar had turned to follow her movement."
3:15
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Chapter 2 (continued): "A member of the hotel staff was now going round the bar asking people if they were Mr Miller."
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Chapter 2 (continued): "''Mr Martin? You mean Andy Martin at NBS?'"
2:52
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Chapter 3: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes."
3:11
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Chapter 3 (continued): "This neutrino struck an atom." / Chapter 4 : "Tricia began to feel that the world was conspiring against her."
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Chapter 4 (continued): "'I see,' said Tricia."
3:03
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Chapter 5: "She watched it coming in from over the Henley direction with mild curiosity at first, wondering what those lights were."
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Chapter 5 (continued): "'We have been monitoring you.'"
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Chapter 5 (continued): "All three of them stood, slightly awkwardly in her sitting room, ..."
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Chapter 5 (continued): "'But I don't know anything about astrology.'"
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Chapter 6: "Ford Prefect hit the ground running."
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Chapter 6 (continued): "Within about thirty seconds a security robot the size of a small melon came flying down the corridor at about waist height, ..."
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Chapter 6 (continued): "They checked their figures and realised that what they had actually discovered was 'boredom', ..."
2:26
CD 2
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Chapter 6 (continued): "The robot rapidly reported back to its central control that everything was now for the best in this best of all possible worlds, ..."
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Chapter 6 (continued): "'What's happened?' insisted Ford."
3:00
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Chapter 6 (continued): "'Mr zil-Doggo is no longer with this organisation. His drinks trolley is, I imagine, helping to console him for this fact.'"
3:00
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Chapter 6 (continued): "'And you want me to be its restaurant critic,' said Ford."
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Chapter 6 (continued): "A remarkably good idea had just occurred to him." / Chapter 7: "Arthur Dent had been in some hell-holes in his life, ..."
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Chapter 7 (continued): "The brochure described some of the history of the planet."
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Chapter 7 (continued): "This, he realised, was about as close to home as he was likely to get."
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Chapter 7 (continued): "A single boghog eyeball sat looking reproachfully at Arthur..." / Chapter 8: "Ford had his own code of ethics."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "'InfiniDim Enterprises,' Ford snarled to himself..."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "Meanwhile the order to disallow the researcher's expenses was relayed down..."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "Before long, insofar as such terms had any meaning in this virtual universe, ..."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "Five minutes later he was out of there."
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Chapter 8 (continued): "No time for fancy routes now, there was obviously a major security alert in progress." / Chapter 9: "Arthur felt at a bit of a loss."
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Chapter 9 (continued): "However it appeared that some sort of calamity had befallen this planet."
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Chapter 9 (continued): "The village of oracles wasn't much better."
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Chapter 9 (continued): "Unsteadily, Arthur got to his feet and brushed himself down with a fistful of dried grass."
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Chapter 9 (continued): "'Yes,' said Arthur. 'That sort of thing. Bit of a problem I sometimes find if I'm being perfectly honest.'"
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Chapter 9 (continued): "Arthur realised just in time what she intended. Together they tossed the contents of the tin into the gully."
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Chapter 9 (continued): "At the top of the third pole Arthur stopped for a breather."
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CD 3
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Chapter 9 (continued): "Oddly, the man's face was now only a couple of feet away."
3:03
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Chapter 9 (continued): "Arthur looked at him doubtfully. 'Can I get that at the spaceport, too?' he said." / Chapter 10: "Ford hurled himself at the door of the editor-in-chief's office, ..."
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Chapter 10 (continued): "He had a nagging suspicion that this was not a business meeting, though." / Chapter 11: "The first thing Arthur Dent had to do, he realised resignedly, was to get himself a life."
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Chapter 11 (continued): "Arthur looked nervously through some grubby and damp pieces of paper."
2:44
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Chapter 11 (continued): "Arthur moved to Bartledan and, using some money he had made by selling some toenail clippings and spit to a DNA bank, ..."
3:01
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Chapter 11 (continued): "He preferred not to think about it."
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Chapter 11 (continued): "Arthur Dent, because of the sheer boredom of endless interstellar flight, was the only one on board who had actually familiarised himself with the ship's safety procedures..." / Chapter 12: "Ford tumbled through the open air..."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "Sixteenth floor. Sub-editors. Bastards."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "The towel was slung over Colin."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "The armoured slug had hoisted the rocket launcher up on to its shoulder."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "Yes, given the infinite sideways extension of probability there was, of course, an almost infinite multiplicity of planets Earth, ..."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "He pulled his newly acquired credit card from his pocket, ..."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "Major heat waves started to coincide, with almost magical precision, with major failures of the Breathe-o-Smart systems."
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Chapter 12 (continued): "The room, like every other room in this building now, was done out in some appallingly tasteful grey." / Chapter 13: "The ship dropped quietly to land on the edge of the wide clearing, ..."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "It hummed for a bit and then stopped."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "Almost immediately a different ramp folded itself out on the other side of the craft..."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "There was also the geometry of the slice to be refined."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "And so the Sandwich Maker sang as he worked."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "They asked him why not and he said that it was not for them to know the will of Almighty Bob, ..."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "'What's the meat in it?' asked Trillian."
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Chapter 13 (continued): "'We have access to virtually every kind of information. I found your name on the passenger list of the ship that crashed.'" / Chapter 14: "As the Guide folded itself back into a smooth, dark disk, ..."
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Chapter 14 (continued): "Did he dare just post the thing to himself?" / Chapter 15: "The first month, getting to know each other, was a little difficult."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "Random, on the other hand, thought she was trapped in a recurring nightmare."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "He supposed that there was no point in pretending not to be hopeless."
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CD 4
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Chapter 15 (continued): "'What's this?'; He suddenly realised she had been talking to him and he hadn't noticed."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "She brought up the display on her wrist panel, ..."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "Arthur suggested they went for a walk."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "Random cradled the watch in her hands, ..."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "Suddenly she turned and faced him, her face dark with anger."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "In the pool of light thrown by a Lamuellan lantern lay Arthur's watch."
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Chapter 15 (continued): "The next appearance of the Perfectly Normal Beasts was imminent, ..." / Chapter 16: "Arthur wasn't quite certain which he noticed as being missing first."
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Chapter 16 (continued): "At last he'd had to go over to the forge to talk with Strinder about the knives, ..."
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Chapter 16 (continued): "Suddenly, something fell out of a tree in front of her."
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Chapter 16 (continued): "She felt almost hypnotised by the strangeness of the thing and its tiny glinting eyes."
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Chapter 16 (continued): "The flash of lethal light passed straight through Random and, about two seconds later, so did the man who had shot it."
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Chapter 16 (continued): "After she had moved two or three hundred yards from the edge of the crater..." / Chapter 17: "For a long period of time there was much speculation and controversy about the so-called 'missing matter'"
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Chapter 17 (continued): "There was also something very odd about it, which Random couldn't immediately make out."
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Chapter 17 (continued): "'No,' Said Random."
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Chapter 17 (continued): "'I'm doing exactly the same thing, but with ultra-violet light. You can't see it.'"
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Chapter 17 (continued): "Something very strange and wonderful now swam into view in the rain."
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Chapter 17 (continued): "A slow smile spread over Random's face."
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Chapter 17 (continued): "She was also extremely nervous."
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Chapter 18: "Arthur leapt to his feet with a start of fear."
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Chapter 18 (continued): "Ford stopped rubbing his head."
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Chapter 18 (continued): "'I am, probably was, the sandwich maker for a small tribe. It was a bit embarrassing really. ...'"
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Chapter 18 (continued): "Ford narrowed his eyes. 'This is that thing you call sarcasm, isn't it?'"
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Chapter 18 (continued): "'No, I didn't,' said Ford."
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Chapter 18 (continued): "Unfiltered Perception means it perceives everything." / Chapter 19: "It was a sight that Arthur never quite got used to, or tired of."
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Chapter 19 (continued): "The great thunderous herd of thousand upon thousand of Perfectly Normal Beasts was sweeping in magnificent array across the Anhondo Plain."
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CD 5
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Chapter 19 (continued): "The noise of the pounding of the hooves was so intense that it was hard to hear anything else above it." / Chapter 20: "Leaping on to the back of a one-and-a-half-ton Perfectly Normal Beast..."
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Chapter 20 (continued): "They couldn't even catch the attention of a single animal."
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Chapter 20 (continued): "He slowly stood up from his crouched position and started to brush himself down."
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Chapter 20 (continued): "With strange sort of sweeping movements of his arms Old Thrashbarg kept the pikka bird in front of the Beast, ..."
3:05
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Chapter 20 (continued): "'Go!' shouted Thrashbarg. 'Go and meet your destiny, Sandwich Maker!'" / Chapter 21: "Misty grey buildings loomed and flickered. They bounced up and down in a highly embarrassing way."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "She was sitting in a small editing suite at a video production company in Soho."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "So what she had on tape, essentially, was a bunch of slightly thin and discoloured people sitting around watching televisions..."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "None of the Grebulons had names, largely because they couldn't think of any."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "Tricia had nodded tremendously slowly at this point."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "She was very, very sick."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "Obviously what happened next was that Tricia quickly set the video camera up on its tripod to capture the whole scene."
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Chapter 21 (continued): "How could she prove any of this?"
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Chapter 22: "Daylight exploded around them. Hot, heavy sun."
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Chapter 22 (continued): "'Gonna buy that spaceship,' said Ford quietly."
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Chapter 22 (continued): "'He's giving it to us for free,' said Ford, taking a gnaw at his roll."
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Chapter 22 (continued): "Ford motioned Arthur to shout a little less loudly."
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Chapter 22 (continued): "He signed with a flourish and handed it back to the barman." / Chapter 23: "The news networks don't like this kind of thing."
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Chapter 23 (continued): "They checked into a large two-bedroomed suite at the Langham."
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Chapter 24: "Away in the inky depths of space invisible movements were being made."
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Chapter 24 (continued): "Because all of the Grebulon surveillance equipment was focused on the planet Earth, ..."
3:15
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Chapter 24 (continued): "Another was a small bunch of people who continually refused to be where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be there." / Chapter 25: "'Just there, number forty-two,' shouted Ford Prefect to the taxi-driver."
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Chapter 25 (continued): "A thin, ill-looking man wearing something baggy and Italian was walking up the stairs past them, ..."
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Chapter 25 (continued): "'Random,' said Trillian quietly from up on the stairs."
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Chapter 25 (continued): "Random threw the gun down and fell to her knees, sobbing."
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