"I don't know what this great thing I'm meant to be doing is, and it looks to me as if I was supposed not to know. And I resent that, right? The old me knew, The old me cared. Fine, so far so good. Except that the old me cared so much that he actually got inside his own brain - my own brain - and locked off the bits that knew and cared, because if I knew and cared I wouldn't be able to do it." ... "Well, I don't want to know" ... "That's my choice. I'm not going to be anybody's puppet, particularly not my own." (page 26)
Zaphod Beeblebrox, the ex-president of the galaxy, clearly has some issues. We find out soon after this quote that Zaphod only became president to find out who actually runs the galaxy (because the president has virtually no power in actuality). However, should he have gone through the mandatory head-screening process before becoming president with this motive in mind, then he would have been thrown out immediately. So, he locked away what he wanted to do so that even he didn't know it anymore. Now, it's coming back.
So, I predict that by the end of this book we will know who (or what) truly controls the galaxy. I think the rest of the story will be almost like an adventure while Zaphod and the rest of the characters run around the universe trying to unlock the clues in Zaphod's head. If not, then I really have no idea where this book is going, but I still like how it's getting there.
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