Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams & Terry Jones
Author:Douglas Adams & Terry Jones [Adams, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780609601037
Published: 1997-08-15T03:48:38+00:00
They lay there waiting for the forever-ending explosion that would terminate their brief affair. But, unlike the two lovers, it didn't come. 'What's happened?' Lucy was the first to speak. 'I don't know!' said The Journalist. 'I don't know!'
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At this same moment, Nettie suddenly managed to sit up on the couch on which Dan had placed her, and screamed: 'Oh my God! There's only five minutes before the bomb goes off!'
'Five minutes!' thought Dan. 'This is where, in a cheap novel, the couple - confronted by imminent oblivion - would suddenly make passionate love.'
'You've got to go and talk to it!' she pleaded.
'What?' said Dan.
'I can't explain! Just believe me! It's in the Engine Room! Hurry!'
'What? repeated Dan a bit gormlessly.
'HURRY! THE ENGINE ROOM! SPEAK TO THE BOMB!'
Dan decided that, while gormlessness had its place in the human repertoire of reactions, now was neither the rime nor place for it. He sprinted out of the Beauty Salon (which was, apparently, where they were) and ran down the length of the Grand Axial Canal, trying to ignore the inevitable chorus:
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