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Aliens discover The Hitchhiker’s Guide.

(#00581 - A216)

Space, the text said, is big. Really big. If you think it’s a long way down the road to the shops, that’s peanuts compared to space.

“People paid money for this?”

“I think it’s some of their Terran humour…”

“I don’t see any references to trousers falling down in this narrative.”

Bloz glared at Kenka. “You and I have access to different worlds of humour.”

Kenka fluffed her feathers. “It said ‘guide’ in the title. There is very little contained herein that is useful. I’ve been to Traal. There are no Bugblatter Beasts.”

“Perhaps they went extinct.”

“Shall we ask a JOAT about the informativeness of this text?”

Bloz swiped through a few pages. “This is not an informative text. This is an entertaining text. It tells a story.”

Kenka fluffed and resettled her plumage with a nervous shake. “Then why are there so many who treat this as a religious text?”

“One of the mysteries of the Universe.”

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