Zaphod Beeblbrox stole the Heart of Gold spaceship and the Infinite Improbability Drive for one reason; to locate the ancient planet Magrathea. Magrathea was once the wealthiest planet in the galaxy but has been dead for 5 million years. Magrathean engineers created planets using white hole matter and became the richest planet ever. This caused the rest of the galaxy to fall into poverty and collapse taking Magrathea with it. Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin descend onto planet Magrathea, a legend long forgotten.
Discovered in a crater are tunnels that lead deeper into the planets core. Zaphod, Trillian and Ford decide to explore the tunnels while Arthur and Marvin are to stand guard outside. Arthur is not very happy about this and here we have a case of controlling values and opposing values.
While Arthur is keeping guard he finds himself bored and walks around the planet where he meets an old man. This is of course revealed to me at the end of the chapter like much of the new information the author reports.
Arthur talks to the old man because he was bored and the planet is supposed to be extinct of all life forms (+)
Arthur is startled by the nameless mans kindly, tranquil manner and (-)
The old man assures Arthur that he means no harm (+)
Arthur learns that the Magratheans were only hibernating to avoid the recession, not dead (+)
Arthur is offered the choice to go with the old man (+)
Arthur has a decision to make here. If he leaves the group he came with, he could possibly put their safety at risk. If he doesn’t leave he faces a calm, mysterious man who says he is late for something and is threatening him to follow. If Arthur leaves the group, he leaves the only people and security he has had since Earth was destroyed, putting his own safety at risk. If he does leave though, he has a chance to finally find out concrete information about the predicament he has found himself in and much more.
He questions the old man but is nonviolently told that it is more of a threat (-)
Arthur goes with the old man because he is curious and was told to do so (+)
I wanted to do a post about the proairetic code but so far I have not been able to predict anything in this book. Every time I think I have picked up on foreshadowing or a clue that ties in with the rest of the book, I find that it does not connect with other events allowing me to predict anything. It is almost like the foreshadowing is a setup placed into the pages for me to notice and predict on but then be baffled by when the author does something completely different. This way I do not expect anything that happens.
Discovered in a crater are tunnels that lead deeper into the planets core. Zaphod, Trillian and Ford decide to explore the tunnels while Arthur and Marvin are to stand guard outside. Arthur is not very happy about this and here we have a case of controlling values and opposing values.
While Arthur is keeping guard he finds himself bored and walks around the planet where he meets an old man. This is of course revealed to me at the end of the chapter like much of the new information the author reports.
Arthur talks to the old man because he was bored and the planet is supposed to be extinct of all life forms (+)
Arthur is startled by the nameless mans kindly, tranquil manner and (-)
The old man assures Arthur that he means no harm (+)
Arthur learns that the Magratheans were only hibernating to avoid the recession, not dead (+)
Arthur is offered the choice to go with the old man (+)
Arthur has a decision to make here. If he leaves the group he came with, he could possibly put their safety at risk. If he doesn’t leave he faces a calm, mysterious man who says he is late for something and is threatening him to follow. If Arthur leaves the group, he leaves the only people and security he has had since Earth was destroyed, putting his own safety at risk. If he does leave though, he has a chance to finally find out concrete information about the predicament he has found himself in and much more.
He questions the old man but is nonviolently told that it is more of a threat (-)
Arthur goes with the old man because he is curious and was told to do so (+)
I wanted to do a post about the proairetic code but so far I have not been able to predict anything in this book. Every time I think I have picked up on foreshadowing or a clue that ties in with the rest of the book, I find that it does not connect with other events allowing me to predict anything. It is almost like the foreshadowing is a setup placed into the pages for me to notice and predict on but then be baffled by when the author does something completely different. This way I do not expect anything that happens.