Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)

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11 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:18:37.917 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- And the Vogons destroyed it five minutes before the program was completed.

- Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

- You know, this explains a lot. Because, all my life, I've had this unaccountable feeling in my bones that something sinister was happening in the Universe and that no one would tell me what it was.

- Oh, no, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.

- Ah! Well, maybe that means something? That outside the Universe we know, some alien intelligence...

- Maybe. Who cares?

- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

- Look at me, I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway. Where's the sense in that? None that I've been able to make out.

- I've been doing fjords all my life. For a fleeting moment, they become fashionable, I get a major award.

- In this replacement Earth we're doing, I've been given Africa, and I'm doing it with whole fjords again because I like them. I'm old-fashioned enough to think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. Then, they tell me it's not equatorial enough.

- What does it matter?

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