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Slartibartfast is an old man who lives on Magrathea. Like his fellow Magratheans, Slartibartfast is a custom planet designer. More specifically, he designs fjords (narrow coastal inlets), and was actually the person who designed the coastlines and archipelagos of Norway. When Arthur encounters him after landing on Magrathea, he explains to him that he—along with everybody else on the planet—has been in hibernation for five million years, ever since the galaxy went into an economic recession. Now, though, he and the other planet designers have been awoken by the same “hyperintelligent pandimensional beings” who have been experimenting on humans for the past ten million years. Hoping to complete their long-running project, these beings (who on earth took the form of mice) want the Magratheans to design a second earth. Slartibartfast explains all of this to Arthur before taking him in a hover car to meet the mice.
Slartibartfast Quotes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Chapter 24
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The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.
It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.
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Slartibartfast Quotes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Chapter 24
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The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.
It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.
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