A bypass in the South of England.
A bypass is an alternative route for traffic to travel through, usually a road. At the start of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent's house is knocked down in order for a bypass to be built through the village of Cottington, where he lived. In an ironic twist, plans for a hyperspace bypass through the Milky Way cause the Earth to be destroyed by the Vogons.
Description in the Guide[]
"Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be."[1]
Point D wasn't anywhere in particular. This was where Mr Prosser was said to want to be, at "any convenient point a very long way from points A, B, and C."[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979
See also[]
- Hyperspace bypass