h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Chapter 1

I was born in 1842 in a good family. I lived most of my childhood on a countryside, where my family had some land. I used to admire nature so much. I loved summers when there are so many colours. I looked in wonder how summer changed in autumn and to winter and so on. I know it does not sound like so big thing, but for me it was. It was because of my hunger for knowledge. Perhaps my fate was sealed then already. I never said that I would want to be a doctor of anything.

My mother, God bless her soul, was a beautiful woman. She always had a smile to give anyone. I remember how she used to sing. She could have become a singer. My father started as a regular doctor but he soon became a surgeon. Well known also and soon we had to stay in London. We didn’t go to country any so often.

My hunger for knowledge soon made me follow my father’s footsteps. I started to study medicine and anatomy. It didn’t take long for me to get to the top of my glass. Future seemed bright. Then my mother died. I was told that she had fell in stairs or something like that. My father was a broke man after that. He did got shock and also died few months later. After his funerals I was told by my aunt what had really happened. My father had caught mother in the hands of her lover. My father beat her to death with his gold headed cane. It was not death of my mother but the knowledge what he had done that drove him to early grave.

My sweet innocent mother was a harlot. My honourable father was a murderer. A murder weapon was the same cane he carried with him so lightly. These facts made me realize something that I didn’t admit to myself until years later. My own parents had made me realize that man is not one… but truly two.



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