Chapter 23 Chapter 21

On the surface of Mangrass, Arthur walked up and down morosely. Careful Ford deliberately left his own to pass the time.He pressed a few keys at random. It is a rather unevenly edited book, containing a large number of chapters whose content only seemed to the editor at the time to be good enough to be included. One of them (the one Arthur has just turned to now) is imagined about Werther.Vojazig's experience.He was a young student at the Maxim Galen University, engaged in an intellectual career, studying ancient linguistics, transformational generative rules, and historical perception and harmonic theory.However, one evening, after a few glasses of Pangalactic Gargle Blast with Zaphod Beeblebrox, he began to be increasingly troubled by the problem that all the ballpoint pens he had bought over the years ended up failing. How's it going.

What followed was a long period of painstaking research.During this time he visited all the major centers of lost ballpoint pens throughout the galaxy, and finally arrived at a rather bizarre theory, which at the time aroused great public interest.He thinks that somewhere in the universe, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiles, fishes, upright tree creatures, and superintelligent shades of blue, there exists a planet made entirely of ballpoint pens. A planet inhabited by life-forms.All unattended ballpoint pens will slide silently to this planet through the wormhole in space. They know that in this world they can enjoy a unique ballpoint pen-shaped life state and a completely equal beauty Life.

These claims are quite pleasant as a theory, but in the end Werther.Vojagieg suddenly announced that he had found the planet and had been working there for a while, chauffeuring a family of cheap green recycled ballpoint pens and driving a limousine.So he was taken away, locked up, wrote a book, and ended up in exile—a usual fate for those determined to make a public appearance. One day, an expedition was sent to the location of the planet Vojagieg claimed was there, and all they found was an asteroid inhabited by a lonely old man who kept repeating that nothing was true.Of course, it was later discovered that he was lying.

The event remains in doubt.The first: the 60,000 Altair dollars that were mysteriously deposited into his Brandis Worgan bank account each year, and the second, of course, was Zaphod Beeblebrox's lucrative second-hand ballpoint pen business. After reading these, Arthur put the book down casually. The robot still sat there, looking dull. Arthur stood up and climbed to the top of the crater.Walking along the crater, he saw two suns sinking spectacularly into Magrath's main line. He went back to the bottom of the pit and woke up the robot.After all, talking to a manic robot is better than talking to no one.

"It's getting dark," he said. "Look, Robot, the stars are out." In the center of the dark nebula, the visible stars are few and faint, but they are there and visible. The robot glanced obediently at the star, then lowered its head again. "I know," he said, "it's miserable, isn't it?" "But it's a sunset scene! Never in my wildest dreams was there such a spectacle...Two suns! It's like two mountains of fire burning in space." "I can see a lot more," said Marvin. "It's no big deal." "I have only one sun at home," insisted Arthur, "and I come from a planet called Earth, as you know."

"Yeah, I know," said Marvin. "You keep talking about it. It sounds like a scary place." "Oh, no, it's beautiful there." "Is there an ocean on it?" "Oh, of course," said Arthur, with a sigh. "The great blue sea with its waves . . . " "I can't stand the ocean," said Marvin. "Tell me," Arthur asked curiously, "do you get on well with the other robots?" "I hate them," Marvin said. "Where are you going?" Arthur could bear it no longer, and he had risen to his feet. "I think I need to go for another walk," he said.

"I don't blame you," Marvin said, and then he counted 597 billion sheep in one second and fell asleep again. Arthur patted his body with his hands a few times to make the blood system work harder, and then began to climb up the crater again. Because the air is so thin here, and because there is no moon here, the night comes very quickly, and by this time it is pitch black.Because of this, Arthur went straight to the old man without noticing him.