Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

To begin with I would like to put the introduction of the book as an beginning: ÒFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a …showed first 75 words of 1238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1238 total…But the reply was this: "There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department on Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now." Then there must have been send another message to the ship because