Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod…

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Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which. ✨ Douglas Adams (2017). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts, p.74, Pan Macmillan
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