![]() It thanks them for their interest but says that there are guided missiles converging on their ship now. The voice flicks on again, this time slightly angrier. A moment later, it returns to thank their clients and say business will eventually be back.Īrthur muses that perhaps they ought to go, but Zaphod hushes him. The cold but courteous voice explains that the planet is temporarily closed for business. Suddenly the group hears a voice that the computer tells them is a tape being broadcast from the dead planet. Zaphod replies that of course it is, as it’s been dead for five million years. He watches the gray planet slide by on the screens and asks aloud if its safe. He drinks a substance very much like tea and feels better. That will only bring about a few broken coffee cups, a mouse cage, a bruise to someone’s upper arm, and the creation and demise of a sperm whale.Īrthur’s mind is slowly reviving after his traumatic prior day. Also, it is about to launch a deadly missile attack as part of an automatic defense system. The narrator cuts in and explains that yes, this really is Magrathea. Ford looks at him in annoyance even if it is the famous planet, there’s definitely no treasure there. Zaphod announces that they’ve got to explore, partly because he’s curious, partly for fame and money and adventure. The surface seems “blurred by time” and “very very old” (120). Its surface is bleak and forbidding it is “gray, dusty, and only dimly contoured” and “looked cold and dead as a crypt” (120). The fact that Zaphod thinks it is the mythical planet of Magrathea simply seems juvenile to him.Īrthur asks Trillian what is going on and she explains. He breathes that he is watching the twin suns of Soulianis and Rahm.įord scoffs but is impressed at the beauty of this new planet, whatever it is. The group sees a fantastic binary sunrise and Zaphod has a shiver of excitement. Zaphod calls for more views of the planet. The computer announces that they are near it, and Trillian tells them regardless of what they think, they are close to somewhere. Ford is very skeptical about Magrathea and claims it never existed. Nowadays no one believes Magrathea really existed.įord and Zaphod are arguing when Arthur joins them. Eventually, though, the Empire collapsed and the planet disappeared. The home for this was Magrathea, which, in its capacity as the home where dream planets were built, became extremely wealthy. ![]() Soon they created a specialist industry that was centered on planet-building. However, they were also dull and assumed it was because of the planets they were on. In the earliest days of the Galactic Empire men and women were bold and mighty and did great things. The following is an excerpt from the Guide. Zaphod gasps that he’s found it-“the most improbable planet that ever existed” (114). ![]() He orders it to rotate its angle a bit and suddenly they see a red star the size of a small planet, and then another. Zaphod calls for the computer to show the Horsehead Nebula, which ought to have nothing in it. Trillian is pointing out how there is a planet at the exact set of coordinates Zaphod predicted. Trillian wakes up Zaphod and takes him to the control room. Ford wonders about his cousin’s ascent to power. Zaphod thinks about not being altogether there mentally, and how these arrivals exacerbated that feeling. ![]() Her two white mice she’d brought sit in a cage next to her. Trillian thinks about her surprisingly negative reaction to her planet being destroyed. None of them can sleep that night except Arthur. The four people feel an acute sense of unease that a perversion of physics has brought them together like this. The computer chatters that the improbability sum is now complete. She replies that she hitched a lift just like them. He is stunned, and he asks “Tricia McMillan” what she is doing here. From behind Arthur comes Trillian’s voice, wryly saying he was indeed from another planet. Arthur angrily explains that Zaphod came to that party and looked normal and picked up a beautiful and intelligent girl that Arthur was interested in by using a line about being from another planet. To both Ford and Zaphod’s surprise, Arthur states that he’s met Zaphod-or, should he say, Phil? He reminds Zaphod of a particular party, which Zaphod finally remembers and smiles amusedly. Ford tells Arthur that Zaphod is his semi-cousin, and tells Zaphod that Arthur is a friend whom he saved when his planet blew up. Ford and Zaphod exchange wary and familiar greetings. When Arthur enters he is shocked by Zaphod’s two heads, especially as his right hand is picking his teeth on his left head and the left one is grinning at Arthur and Ford. Marvin continues to lead Ford and Arthur, grumbling all the while.
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