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TD - I love the part in "Restaurant" when Marvin is defending the bridge and the super tank says to get out of the way on the walkway. Marvin asks what "they" left hm with to defend the bridge with. The Supertank has several goes then says, "It must be something pretty damned devastating". After more time, Marvin asks if the ST gives up and then says: "Nothing. Nothing at all."
Yes, that's excellent. If I recall the radio series correctly, it leads to the invading machine then moaning and whinging about it being "absolutely typical" or something. At the end of the exchange, after Marvin's ridiculously easy destruction of the machine, he says "what a depressingly stupid robot." Go get 'em Marvin!
Yep, the Supertank blows away the bridge beneath it which was supporting it and plunges to a heap of mangled metal below.
In another coincidence, this little section was on the radio yesterday in the run up to the news. I had never heard it before and now I have it in print.
And it's brilliant - it's the way they say it, and the way the sadly not immortal Peter Jones follows it up. Douglas Adams had a rare genius.
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