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What helps make the introduction of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy so effective?
…In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper, and secondly, it has the words “Don’t Panic” inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.
It begins with a house.