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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent's home is destroyed to make way for a bypass. A few minutes later, the entire Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass. In chapter 1, Adams explained what a bypass was:
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.
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