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Two of there strange, ape-like creatures survived.

Arthur Dent escaped at the very last moment because an old friend
of his, Ford Prefect, suddenly turned out to be from a small
planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he
had hitherto claimed; and, more to the point, he knew how to
hitch rides on flying saucers.

Tricia McMillian - or Trillian - had skipped the planet six
months earlier with Zaphod Beeblebrox, the then President of the
Galaxy.

Two survivors.

They are all that remains of the greatest experiment ever
conducted - to find the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer
of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

And, less than half a million miles from where their starship is
drifting lazily through the inky blackness of space, a Vogon ship
is moving slowly towards them.

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Chapter 2

Like all Vogon ships it looked as if it had been not so much
designed as congealed. The unpleasant yellow lumps and edifices
which protuded from it at unsightly angles would have disfigured
the looks of most ships, but in this case that was sadly
impossible. Uglier things have been spotted in the skies, but not
by reliable witnesses.

In fact to see anything much uglier than a Vogon ship you would
have to go inside and look at a Vogon. If you are wise, however,
this is precisely what you will avoid doing because the average
Vogon will not think twice before doing something so pointlessly
hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born - or
(if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never
been born.

In fact, the average Vogon probably wouldn't even think once.
They are simple-minded, thick-willed, slug-brained creatures, and
thinking is not really something they are cut out for. Anatomical
analysis of the Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a
badly deformed, misplaced and dyspeptic liver. The fairest thing
you can say about them, then, is that they know what they like,
and what they like generally involves hurting people and,
wherever possible, getting very angry.

One thing they don't like is leaving a job unfinished -