From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Oy oy oy, must be one of my very favourite chapters in any literature:

"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten
million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I
didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of decline.".

Gotta love that Marvin, he makes my life seem sooooo goooood. Thanks for
posting that :-)


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:4014f679{at}w3.nls.net...
> Phil Payne wrote:
>
> >>Time-saving preface: I've been an SF reader and aerospace-tech buff
> >>since childhood. If your reaction to any discussion of space activity
> >>is "why do that when we haven't solved [poverty/pollution/man's
> >>inhumanity to man] here on earth?" there's no point
reading farther.
> >
> >
> > I don't think human beings - at least the carbon-based versions - belong
in
> > space at all. We should leave it to our steel and silicon successors,
for
> > whom a thousand-year journey to the stars would represent mild boredom.
> >
>
> "Trillian patted him in a way that he disliked intensely, "hanging
> around waiting for us all this time."
> "Five hundred and seventy-six thousand  million, three thousand five
> hundred and seventy-nine years," said Marvin, "I counted
them." [... ]
> "The first ten million years were the worst, 'and the second ten million
> years, they were the worst too. The third million years I didn't enjoy
> at all. After that I went into a bit of decline." He paused just long
> enough to make them feel they ought to say something, and then
> interrupted. "It's the people you meet in this job that really get you
> down," he said and paused again.
> Trillian cleared her throat. "Is that ..."
> "The best conversation I had was over forty million  years  ago,"
> continued Marvin. "And that was with a coffee machine."
>
> Adam
>
>

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