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Oh right, hello chaps. It's Mark from English on
command. And today, we're going to read
the plot summary of the whole book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy. Obviously, we can't read the
whole book. Every single chapter here on a
podcast, it would be a bit too long.
So I'm going to tell you the plot, the general plot of the
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book, and if you get interested,I highly encourage you to go out
there to get a book and read it yourself, or You can go and
watch a movie with the same name, obviously.
So let's go. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. Begins with contractors arrived
and author, dance house, in order to demolish it, to make
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way for a bypass, it's friend Ford prefect arrives while
others line in front of the bulldozers, to stop them from
demolishing. It, he tries to explain to other
that he's actually from. Planet somewhere in the vicinity
of Betelgeuse and that the Earthis about to be demolished, the
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Vogons, an alien race. And then to Destroyer, to make
way, for a hyperspace, bypass the to escape by hitching, a
lift on one of the Vogons ship. Now, this is however against
vogon regulations and then the pay are discovered, they are
tortured with a rendition of Vogel.
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In poetry which is well, the third worst in the known
universe and then they are thrown into space.
They are very improbably. However, picked up by the Heart
of Gold Heart of Gold is a ship powered bar.
And infinite, improbability drive and has been stolen by
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force is semi cousin, and also apresident of the Galaxy zaphod
beeblebrox zaphod accompanied bytrillion and the a clinically
depressed robot, Marvin they areSearching for the legendary
plane of McGrath are there. Other after being separated from
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the rest of the group is taking to the interior to the inside of
McGrath here by slartibartfast and Native of the planet, the
others except Marvin the robot they are kidnapped, salad bar
fast explains to us that the Earth is actually a
supercomputer commissioned and paid for by a race of
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hyper-intelligent. Jump and imagine beings.
Now this creatures had earlier bill, it's a computer named deep
thought to calculate the answer to life the universe and
everything, this can be there after seven and a half million
years of calculating had announced that the answer is in
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fact 42. Now being unsatisfied with the
answer they set about finding the question the right question
to this answer, that's what the deep thoughts.
Just now deep thought itself, designed another, computer, the
Earth to calculate the right question, however, 10 years
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later, and just five minutes before they can position of the
program. Well, the Earth is the Polished,
but it's bogus. The manifestations of two of
these beings Frank and Benji Mouse had arrived on Greta on
the Heart of Gold. This guy's is trillions pad.
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My snow trillion is a told you before this name trillion that
girl also from the planet she was picked up by zaphod
beeblebrox when key was just hanging out on the planet, so I
will come to that later. We know the mice realized that
Arthur as a Lost Generation non-organic byproduct of the
computer. It has the question imprinted in
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his brain and offer to buy his brain from him Arthur.
Personally, disagrees and far touse.
The mice are about to cut Arthur's head open when klaxons
all over the planets, created a version with the escape, the
galactic police had arrived in the planet to rests effort, The
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group is attacked by two members, the police Shuli and
Bambam who abruptly died when their life support systems fail.
Now, Marvin had explained his view of the universe to the
mother ships computer and it committed suicide.
Now, I didn't tell you before, Marvin is very, very sad.
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It's very sad about his life, her depressive and also he's in
Robert, we're not taking the life support.
With it. Alright?
Then the group decides to go to the restaurant at the end of the
universe for lunch. Now this is sort of like a
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probably the second part of the book or we can say different
chapter different part of this same book.
We're going to read it next time.
It's called the restaurant at the end of the universe.
All right stay tuned. I'll see you.
I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good day guys and girls.
Bye. Now this is sort of like a
probably the second part of the book or we can say different
chapter different part of this same book.
We're going to read it next time.
It's called the restaurant at the end of the universe.
All right stay tuned. I'll see you.
I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good day guys and girls.
Bye.