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Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you’re going to say next.
Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you’re going to say next.
Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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- Douglas Adams
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- Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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