From here it was a bit of a jump to the pavement since there was a lower ground floor to the house with a narrow flight of steps leading down to it in the front. a line of iron railings separated these from the pavement, and Dirk had to get clear over these.

Without hesitating for a moment he made the jump, and it was in mid-bound that he realised he and not picked up his car keys from the kitchen table where he'd left them.

He considered as he sailed gracelessly through the air whether or not to execute a wild mid-air twist, make a desperate grab backwards for the window and hope that he might just manage to hold on to the sill, but decided on mature reflection that an error at this point might just kill him whereas the walk would probably do him good.

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Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul

She was about to demand a full explanation of this proposterous remark when a passing white Ford Sierra slowed down beside them.
The driver wound down the window and leant out.
"Had a crash then?" he shouted at them.
"Yes."
"Ha!" he said and drove on. A second or two later a Peugot stopped by them.
"Who was that just now?" the driver asked them, in reference to the previous driver who had just stopped.
"I don't know," said Dirk.
"Oh," said the driver. "You look as if you've had a crash of some sort."
"Yes," said Dirk.
"Thought so," said the driver and drove on.
"You don't get the same quality of passers-by these day's do you?" said Dirk to Kate.

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... he moved his head round what seemed like a billionth part of a billionth part of a degree, slipped behind a molecule and was gone.

He had instantly to duck to avoid a great eagle swooping out of the vast space at him.

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Reg was having difficulty in finding the key from a collection which looked like something that a fit Ninja Warrior could hurl through the trunk of a tree.

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"Marvin, why are you lying face down in the dust?" spoke Ford.
"It's a good way to show my depression." He then jacked himself up and stood facing the opposite way.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur - "What's fun about 100,000 dead people?"
Ford - "I don't know, lets find out shall we?"

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Massive sweaty figures seethed around them, on them (talking about tables full of steaming dead things and wine goblets etc..), eating, drinking, fighting over the food, fighting in the food, fighting with the food.

A yard or so from Dirk, a warrior was standing on top of a table fighting a pig which had been roasting for six hours, and he was clearly losing, but losing with vim and spirit ...

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"I can't help noticing", Zaphod said coolly, "that you have parked your spaceship through mine."

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

"I've had the sort of day that would make
St. Francis of Assisi kick babies"

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