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11 lines
639 B
Plaintext
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand
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about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating
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the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or
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Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all
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right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange
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behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought,
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their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and
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observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they
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don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start
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working.
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