Repetition in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
             In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent is taken off the Earth seconds before it is demolished for a galactic freeway and seconds after his house has been demolished for freeway. Ford Prefect, the friend that has plucked him off the Earth, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Together, they, along with two others, journey though the galaxy aided by The Hitchhiker's Guide. They find out that the three smartest animals on Earth are mice, dolphins, and humans.
             Mice, the smartest creatures on Earth, are used by humans to conduct experiments and to gather new research. Arthur can not believe at first that these animals could are the smartest. But Slartibartfast, a native of the planet Magrathean, convinced him:
             How better to disguise their real natures, and how better to guide your thinking. Suddenly running down a maze the wrong way, eating the wrong bit of cheese, unexpectedly dropping dead from myxomatosis [. . .] You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. (Adams, 164)
             Slartibartfast explained to Arthur that the Earth was "commissioned, paid for, and run by mice" (163). He explained to Arthur that the mice had been experimenting on humans downing man's existence on Earth. At the end of the book, two mice want to steal Arthur's brain because they think that his brain might contain the Ultimate question.( )
             Dolphins are the second smartest creatures on Earth, who man always felt were inferior to them:
             man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars, and so much--while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent th...