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Hello chaps. It's Mark from English on
kommandant. They are going to read one more
chapter of Hitchhiker's Guide tothe Galaxy.
So if you remember, we have Arthur Dent and Ford prefect.
They are right now. Outside of the bar, I was at the
pub and they don't know what's going on.
Something big is about to happen.
The world is about to be destroyed, all right?
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Maybe on to chapter number 4, far away on the opposite spiral
arm of the Galaxy 500 thousand light-years from the Star.
So zaphod beeblebrox, president of the Imperial gliding, we have
government sped across the seas of demon Grand, his iron Drive
Delta boat winking and flashing in the de Morgan's on the morgue
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on the heart. The more G the Remo democracy,
almost totally unheard of the migrant secret home of the heart
of Gold. The boat sped on across the
water. Will be some time before it
reached its destination because the Morgan is such as it's quite
in conveniently arranged Planet,it consists of nothing but mid
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lane, two large desert island separated by a very pretty but
not only wide stretches of ocean, the boat spread on
because of this tip illogical awkwardness de Morgan has always
remained a deserted planet. This is why the Imperial gliding
government chose the Morgan of the Heart of Gold project
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because it was so deserted and aheart of gold was so secret, the
boat zipped and skip the cross. The sea, the sea that lay
between the main islands of the main, arguably Lago of any
useful size of the whole planet was even people Brock's wasn't
kids away from the tiny space port on Easter Island.
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The name wasn't entirely meaningless coincidence, the
Galactic speak. Easter means, small flat and
light brown to the Heart of GoldIsland which by another
meaningless coincidence, was called France.
One of the side effects of work of the Heart of Gold was a whole
string of pretty meaningless coincidences, but it was not in
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any way, a coincidence that today, the day of combination
project, the great day of unveiling, the day that the
Heart of Gold was finally, to beintroduced to a Marvel in Galaxy
was also a great deal of combination for Z4, beeblebrox,
it was for the sake of this day that he had first.
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Decided to run for the presidency a decision which had
sent ways of astonishment. Through all the internal Galaxy
zaphod beeblebrox president. Now these are for people
Brock's, another president men had said as a clinch improve
that the whole of known creation, had finally Gone
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Bananas, zaphod greened and gavethe bone extra kick of speed
That will be able Brock's Adventure ex-hippie good timer
crook could possibly Maniacs. Self-publishers, terribly, bad,
and personal relationships oftenthought to be completely out to
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launch president. No, had Gone Bananas.
Not in that way. At least on a six.
People in the entire galaxy, understood the principle on
which the Galaxy was governed, and that they knew that one's
ever been broke scat. Announced his intention to run
this President. It was more or less a fait,
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accompli. He was the ideal presidency for
What they completely fail to understand was why is if it was
doing it, he Bank sharply shooting a while, one of water
had a son today was the day, today was the day when they when
they would realize what they're for the had been up to today.
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Was that zaphod beeblebrox, his presence?
It was all about today was also his 200th birthday.
Yeah. But that was just another
meaningless coincidence. As she skipped his ball across
the seas of demography smiled, quietly to himself about what a
wonderful exciting day was goingto be relaxed and spread his two
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arms, lazily crosses it back. His tears extra arm.
He had recently fitted just beneath his right one to help
improve his ski boxing. Hmm.
Hey you could himself you are real cool boy you but this
nerves Sansone shrewder than a dog whistle.
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The an affront was about 20 miles long and five miles across
the middle Sandy and Christian shape.
In fact, it seemed to exist. Not as much as in Ireland in its
own. Right.
Is simply a means of defined sweeping curve of a huge Bay.
This Mission was heightened by the fact that inner Coastline of
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the Christian consisted almost entirely of steep Cliffs from
the top of the cliff, the land, slopes slowly down five miles to
the opposite shore. On top of the cliffs to a
reception committee, it consistsin large, part of the engineers
and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold mostly
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humanoid. But here and there were a few
Rapture Lloyd A time in years two or three greens life like
maximum angle actions and octopus voice is so cute turtle
list. Sorry guys, I don't even know
what is it or two and a hooloovoo and Hulu is super
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intelligent shade of the color blue.
All except the hula hula, rip landing, and they are
multicolored ceremonial lab coats who lived who had been
temporarily reflected in the freestanding prism for the
occasion. There was a mood of immense
excitement through answer, all of them together and between
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them, they had gone to and Beyond the farthest limits of
physical laws. Restructure the fundamentals of
brick of matter, strain twisted and broken.
Can the laws of possibility and impossibility.
But still the great excitement of all seem to be to meet a man
when orange sash around his neck.
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Another stash was what the present the Galaxy tradition we
were it might not even have mademuch difference to them if they
would know exactly how much power president of the Galaxy
actually willed it. None at all only six people in
the Galaxy knew that the job of the galactic president was not
not to willpower, but to attractattention away from it.
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Zaphod beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.
The crowd gasped, dazzled by Saint and seamanship as a
present. Speedboat zip around the
Headland in the debate, it flashed and shown as it came
scared, oversee and wide skidding turns.
In fact, it didn't need to touchthe water at all because it was
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supported on a hey, Zook ocean of ionized atoms, but just for
the fact, it was fitted with thin film B, which could be
lowered into the water. They slashed sheets of water.
He's in Italy. Are carved deep gashes into the
sea which wait. Crazily.
And sank back full moon in the boats week as Gary you'd cross
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the bay Zapped love. The fact, it was what he was
best at. He twisted the will sharply the
bow Those little round and a while scriven skid Beneath The
Cliff face and dropped to rest lightly on a rocking race within
seconds. He ran out into the deck and
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waved and green over three billion people.
The three billion people weren'tactually there but they watched
his every gesture Through The Eyes of a small robot 3D camera
which hovered subsequently in the air nearby.
The antics of the Always made anamazingly popular 3D, that's
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what they were for. He grinned again, three billion
and six people didn't know it, but today would be a bigger
antique that anyone had bargained for the robot camera
honed in for a close-up on the more popular of his to add and
humid. Again, it was roughly humanoid
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in appearance except for the extra head and third arm his
fair to Has old hair stuck out in random directions.
His blue eyes, glinted of something, completely, and
indifferent and ended in identifiable, and his students
were almost always unshaven. It's ready for Heights,
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inspiring Globe. Floated next to his boat role
and bubblin good, listening to the brilliancy of the sun inside
it forward with a wide semicircular sofa.
I fostered in glorious. Red leather, the more the globe
bulb, the role of the motor so far, stayed perfectly still
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stay. It is an upholstered Rock again.
Old on for a fact is It has a knife in zaffis Step through the
wall of the globe and relaxed onthe sofa.
He spread out his two arms, lazily along the back, Aunt,
with a third brush, some dust ofhis knee.
He's had his head looked about smiling.
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He put his feet up any moment. He thought he might scream
water, boiled up beneath the bubble, it's see in spouted the
bubble Sergent in the air bubble.
And enroll in the water spout upup.
It climbed through slits. Have slight at the cliff up a
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search on the jab the waterfall in from beneath.
It crashing back into the sea, hundreds of feet below, zaphod
smile, picturing himself a thoroughly ridiculous for of
transferred but a thoroughly beautiful one at the top of the
cliff and glow wavered for a moment tipped onto Rail Graham
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wrote down it to small concave platform and really want to hold
two tremendous. The plus it will be Brock
stepped out of the bubble is orange stash blazing in a light.
The president of the Galaxy had arrived, you waited for the
Applause to die down then raisedhis hands in greeting.
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He he said govern Spira stood upto him and attempted to press a
copy of his prepared speech in the history.
His hands Pages 32 sound of the original version.
Where at the moment flow install, you lie on the
Democracy system, five mouths ofthe debate, they just wanted to
had been salvaged by the Morgan front, Crystal ego and had
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already become incorporated intoextraordinary, new form of Nest,
which the eagle had invented. It was constructed a large leaf
paper, and it was visually impossible for a new hatched
baby. Go to break out of it.
The maugrim Frond crested Eagle had heard of the notion of
survival of the species, but wondered no truck with it.
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Zaphod beeblebrox would not be ended in his sad speech and he
gently deflected. The one being offered him by the
spider. He should again, everyone
believed in him or at least nearly everyone.
He singled out trillion from thecrowd trillion was a girl that
Zappa had picked up recently wasHis new planet just for fun
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Incognito. She was slim darkish humanoid
with long waves of black hair, afull mouth and all, they don't
know about my nose and ridiculously brown eyes with her
red head scarf. Northern that particular way and
her long flowing silky brown dress.
She looked vaguely Arabic all that anyone there had ever heard
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of another Arab. Of course, the Arabs had very
recently cease to exist and evenwhen they had, Existed.
There were five hundred thousand, light-years on the
migrant trillion. Wasn't anybody, in particular,
ourselves ever claimed, she justran around with him.
Rather a lot and told him what she thought of him.
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Hi honey. He said to her, she flashed him
a quick tied smiled and looked away.
Then she looked back for a moment and smile more warmly,
but this time he was looking at something else.
Hi is that a small knot of Creatures from the Press who
were standing nearby, wishing you would stop saying hi and get
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on with the quotes. He grinned at them particularly
because he knew that in a few moments, he would be given them
one. Hell of a quote, next thing he
said there was not a lot of usedto them.
One of the officials of the party had a relatively silent.
President was clearly not in themood to read the deliciously
turn speech had been written forhim.
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I had flipped the switch on the remote.
Device in his pocket. Elway in front of them, a huge
wide down, bulge against a sky crack down, the middle split and
slowly fold itself down into theground.
Everyone gasped. Although they had nonprofit
world was going to do that because they had built it that
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way beneath, it lay uncovered, ahuge Starship, 150 meters long
shaped like a Sleek running shoeperfectly.
Why? Why and mind-bogglingly
beautiful at the heart of it andsee my small gold box, which
carried with it. The most brain reg device ever
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conceived and device, which madethe Starship unique in the
history of the Galaxy Device. After which the ship had been
named The Heart of Gold. Wow, zaphod beeblebrox Heart of
Gold. There wasn't much else.
Hears you could say. He's at it again because you
knew it would annoy the price. The crowd turned their faces
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back towards him expectantly. He wouldn't girl actually and
who raised his eyebrows and widened his eyes at him.
She knew what she was about to say.
I thought team a terrible show off.
That is really amazing. Is that that really is truly
amazing. That is so amazingly amazing.
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I'm think I would like to steal it a marvelous residential
quote. Absolutely True to form the
crowd laughs appreciatively and the use m'n gleefully, punched
violence on their Sabbath, a news Maddox and the present
green. And as you grow in his heart,
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scream that variably and he fingered the small paralyzed
somatic bomb, Nestle quietly in his pocket.
Finally, he could bear to it. No more.
He lives in his hand up to the sky, let out a while loop major
throats threw, the bomb to the ground.
And then forward to the Sea of suddenly Frozen smiles.
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That's the end of chapter 4. My first, I hope you enjoyed it
now. Have a great day.
I'll see you tomorrow. Bye, bye.
That's the end of chapter 4. My first, I hope you enjoyed it
now. Have a great day.
I'll see you tomorrow. Bye, bye.