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Of course, that also means that there can never be an end. Not even narrative rules, as he freely zaps us from place to place and time to time with little regard for continuity. That and the lord of the universe living in a shack out in a swamp somewhere, his only company being a grumpy cat. But the creation myth of the Golgafrinchans, a superfluous third of humanity that settled the Earth two million years ago, is just the kind of thing I love Adams for. The rock band Disaster Area is dead on arrival. Milliways is a bit disappointing, though it seems an obvious inspiration for Monty Python’s vision of the afterlife as a Vegas floorshow. (The TV series was even better, with Louis Armstrong singing us out with “What a Wonderful World.”) Did we need anything more?Īpparently this was Adams’s favourite book in the series. Then we literally start all over, as Arthur signs off with the Prosperoesque gesture of chucking his copy of the Guide into a river. We’ve gone from the end of Earth (destroyed to make room for a hyperspace expressway) to the end of the universe, in the form of a restaurant called Milliways. “Volume Two in the Trilogy of Five” rounds the original story arc of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy off pretty nicely. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe