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...least eight marine reactors, three from the nuclear icebreaker Lenin and the others from decommissioned submarines, have been scuttled in Novaya Zemlya's shallow bays. The dead reactors are encased in layers of steel and may be harmless for many years. But inside, their cores contain dangerous isotopes...
...novel, Mostly Harmless, marks the fifth in what Adams persists in calling the Hitchhiker's Trilogy...
Before reading a passage from Mostly Harmless, Adams explained why a main character of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy appears in the new book as a revered sandwich maker in an alien village...
Excessive psychological introspection should carry a warning label. Why must we give reasons for everything we do? Living behind a pierced veil of puritanism, the British exult in caprice--in drinking, raving etc.--without feeling a need for self-examination. Such caprice is not harmless, though. The soccer hooligans of the 1980s indulged in violence because it was spontaneous and liberating, an escape from the doldrums of economic necessities (at the occasional cost of an eyeball). Yet if reasons for every act have to be given, or at least deciphered, no one can have such flushes of energy. Life becomes...
...looked harmless enough: just another small asteroid, shaped so exactly like a peanut that the resemblance was almost comical. A few large impact craters, and hundreds of tiny ones, were scattered at random over its charcoal-gray surface. There were no visual clues to give any sense of scale, but Singh knew its dimensions by heart: 1,295 m maximum length, 456 m minimum width. Kali would fit easily into many city parks...