Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guid To The Galaxy

DouglasAdams? The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the GalaxyAvailableeither by itself or collected with the other five books in the trilogy. Manic humor in a sci-fi context. For instance, while they?re about to bethrown out of a space ship and die, Arthur yells wildly, ?I don?t want to dienow. I?ve still got a headache. I don?t want to go to heaven with aheadache. I?d be all cross and wouldn?tenjoy it!? (p47). The guard bellows,?Resistance is useless,? to which Ford responds, ?How can anyone maintain a positivemental attitude if you?re saying things like that?? and Arthur says, ?You?retalking about a positive mental attitude and you haven?t even had your planetdemolished today.? When Ford tells himto stop panicking, Arthur says, ?Who said anything about panicking? This is still jus the culture shock. You wait until I?ve settled down into thesituation and found my bearings. ThenI?ll start panicking? (p48). Ford triesto save them by playing shrink to the stupid guard-robot sent to throw them offthe ship. ?Do you really enjoy this sortof thing??does it give you a full, satisfying life? Stomping around, shouting, pushing people outof spaceships?? The guard answers thatit?s lousy, to which Ford responds, ?Then why do you do it??.Do you just findthat coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interestingchallenge?? Then he tells Arthur, ?Tryto understand his problem. Here he is,poor lad, his entire life?s work is stamping around, throwing people offspaceships?and shouting?and he doesn?t even know why he?s doing it.? He suggests the robot tell his masters that?you?re not going to do it anymore,? but this doesn?t work. Still, they manage to deport to another ship,where they meet Marvin, a vastly intelligent and equally depressed robot whomoans and drones: ?I think you ought toknow I?m feeling very depressed?.I have an exceptionally large mind?.I won?tenjoy it?.I?m not getting you down at all, am I??.I wouldn?t like to think Iwas getting you down?.You?re sure you don?t mind?? (p63). Later, when they?re on a space ship pursuedby nuclear missiles, the ship computer, named Eddie, starts to sing ?You?llNever Walk Alone,? first whining nasally, then wailing, then crooning, whilethe crew fight for survival and make it just as the song and time run out(p87-88).

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