To tell the story of the book, it is best to tell the story of some of those whose lives it affected. A human from the planet Earth was one of them.

9 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:01:37.240 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to do in Zero Gravity...

- And more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person, Anyway?

- And in many of the more relaxed civilisations on the outer eastern rim of the galaxy,

- 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 respects.

- First, it is slightly cheaper, and secondly, it has the words 'Don't Panic!' inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

- To tell the story of the book, it is best to tell the story of some of those whose lives it affected. A human from the planet Earth was one of them.

- Though as our story opens, he no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company.

- His name is Arthur Dent. He is a six-foot-tall ape descendant, and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.

(BULLDOZER RUMBLING)

- Come off it, Mr Dent. You can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozers indefinitely.

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