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E-kniha Douglas Adams: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Anotace
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on…
God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?
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Douglas Adams[11.3.1952-11.5.2001] Douglas Noël Adams patřil k nejznámějším autorům science fiction, proslavil se především dnes již legendární knižní sérií Stopařův průvodce Galaxií. Tento anglický spisovatel, dramatik humoristických rozhlasových pořadů a hudebník, se narodil se v roce 1952 v Cambridgi. Když se jeho rodiče v roce 1957 rozvedli, přestěhoval se se sestrou k babičce do Brentwoodu v Essexu. Douglas byl v roce...
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Chapter 30
They rented a car in Los Angeles from one of the places that rents out cars that other people have thrown away.
"Getting it to go round corners is a bit of a problem," said the guy behind the sunglasses as he handed them the keys, "sometimes it's simpler just to get out and find a car that's going in that direction."
They stayed for one night in a hotel on Sunset Boulevard which someone had told them they would enjoy being puzzled by.
"Everyone there is either English or odd or both. They've got a swimming pool where you can go and watch English rock stars reading Language, Truth and Logic for the photographers."
It was true. There was one and that was exactly what he was doing.
The garage attendant didn't think much of their car, but that was fine because they didn't either.
Late in the evening they drove through the Hollywood hills along Mulholland Drive and stopped to look out first over the dazzling sea of floating light that is Los Angeles, and later stopped to look across the dazzling sea of floating light that is the San Fernando Valley. They agreed that the sense of dazzle stopped immediately at the back of their eyes and didn't touch any other part of them and came away strangely unsatisfied by the spectacle. As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn't think much of it.
They slept late and restlessly and awoke at lunchtime when it was stupidly hot.
They drove out along the freeway to Santa Monica for their first look at the Pacific Ocean, the ocean which Wonko the Sane spent all his days and a good deal of his nights looking at.
"Someone told me," said Fenchurch, "that they once overheard two old ladies on this beach, doing what we're doing, looking at the Pacific Ocean for the firs…
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