Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath.

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艹,作者说时间旅行最大的问题是如何选择正确的时态。

The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

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接下来的一段我脸上的问号更多了…
wioll haven be… willan on-take… willing watchen… mayan arrivan on-when… You can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome…
不看看这本书都不知道人能胡说八道又逻辑自洽到什么程度,Hitchhiker 那本书也没有这么胡说吧?

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