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At

that

moment

the

bottom

fell

out

of

Arthur

's

mind

.

His

eyes

turned

inside

out

.

His

feet

began

to

leak

out

of

the

top

of

his

head

.

The

room

folded

flat

about

him

,

spun

around

,

shifted

out

of

existence

and

left

him

sliding

into

his

own

navel

.

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They

were

passing

through

hyperspace

.

"

The

Babel

fish

,

"

said

The

Hitchhiker

's

Guide

to

the

Galaxy

quietly

,

"

is

small

,

yellow

and

leech-like

,

and

probably

the

oddest

thing

in

the

Universe

.

It

feeds

on

brainwave

energy

not

from

its

carrier

but

from

those

around

it

.

It

absorbs

all

unconscious

mental

frequencies

from

this

brainwave

energy

to

nourish

itself

with

.

It

then

excretes

into

the

mind

of

its

carrier

a

telepathic

matrix

formed

by

combining

the

conscious

thought

frequencies

with

nerve

signals

picked

up

from

the

speech

centres

of

the

brain

which

has

supplied

them

.

The

practical

upshot

of

all

this

is

that

if

you

stick

a

Babel

fish

in

your

ear

you

can

instantly

understand

anything

said

to

you

in

any

form

of

language

.

The

speech

patterns

you

actually

hear

decode

the

brainwave

matrix

which

has

been

fed

into

your

mind

by

your

Babel

fish

.

"

"

Now

it

is

such

a

bizarrely

improbable

coincidence

that

anything

so

mindboggingly

useful

could

have

evolved

purely

by

chance

that

some

thinkers

have

chosen

to

see

it

as

the

final

and

clinching

proof

of

the

non-existence

of

God

.

"

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"

The

argument

goes

something

like

this

:

'

I

refuse

to

prove

that

I

exist

,

'

says

God

,

'

for

proof

denies

faith

,

and

without

faith

I

am

nothing

.

'

"

"

'

But

,

'

says

Man

,

'

The

Babel

fish

is

a

dead

giveaway

,

is

n't

it

?

It

could

not

have

evolved

by

chance

.

It

proves

you

exist

,

and

so

therefore

,

by

your

own

arguments

,

you

do

n't

.

QED

.

'

"

"

'

Oh

dear

,

'

says

God

,

'

I

had

n't

thought

of

that

,

'

and

promptly

vanished

in

a

puff

of

logic

.

"

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