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> one doesn't build a cannon to then not shoot a cannon ball. "Dark Star" comes to mind: http://www.cinemah.com/altri/war/carpent.htm http://www.cinemah.com/a

• PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Trillian led him for a short walk through the light before she said anything more. He stumbled uncertainly after her. The encircling flashlight beams were drooping slightly now as if they were abdicating to this strange, quiet girl who alone in this Universe of dark confusion seemed to know what she was doing. She turned and faced him, and lightly held both his arms. He was a picture of bewildered misery. "Tell me," she said. He said nothing for a moment, while his gaze darted from one of her eyes to the other. "We ..." he said, "we have to be alone ... I think." He screwed up his face and then dropped his head forward, shaking it like someone trying to shake a coin out of a money box. He looked up again. "We have this bomb now, you see," he said, "it's just a little one." "I know," she said. He goggled at her as if she'd said something very strange about beetroots. "Honestly," he said, "it's very, very little." "I know," she said again. "But they say," his voice trailed on, "they say it can destroy everything that exists. And we have to do that, you see, I think. Will that make us alone? I don't know. It seems to be our function, though," he said, and dropped his head again. "Whatever that means," said a hollow voice from the crowd. Trillian slowly put her arms around the poor bewildered young Krikkiter and patted his trembling head on her shoulder. "It's all right," she said quietly, but clearly enough for all the shadowy crowd to hear, "you don't have to do it." -- Douglas Adams