Gordon Way's Astonishment At Being Suddenly Shot

The Hardest Assumption To Challenge Is The One You Don't Even Know You Are Making.

Let Us Think The Unthinkable, Let Us Do The Undoable, Let Us Prepare To Grapple With The Ineffable Itself, And See If We May Not Eff It After All.

God's Final Message To His Creation: 'we Apologize For The Inconvenience.

The Usual People Tried To Claim Responsibility. First The Ira , Then The Plo And The Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels Rushed Out A Statement To The Effect That The Situation Was Completely Under Control, That It Was A One In A Million Chance, That There Was Hardly Any Radioactive Leakage At All, And That The Site Of The Explosion Would Make A Nice Location For A Day Out With The Kids And A Picnic, Before Finally Having To Admit That It Wasn't Actually Anything To Do With Them At All.

Six Pints Of Bitter, Said Ford Prefect. And Quickly Please, The World's About To End.