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“That is impossible”, often this phrase is used as an exaggeration to state how unlikely it is that an event is taking place. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy uses this fact to take it to an extreme for humorous purpose. The idea behind it is the case of the impossible or at least the very unlikely. One theme therefore is the probability of the improbable, which recurs throughout the whole radio script. An important motif in service of this theme is the improbability drive which is invented precisely in this passage, supported by literary devices to help to evoke amusement. Examples of these literary devices are the intertextuality, irony and logical fallacy. The motif, the improbability drive, which is later revealed, enables a space ship to be at every point of the universe at the same time, is a rather absurd and impossible object. In order to make sense of it in a humorous way logical fallacy is applied. A student left behind in the lab to clean up after an unsuccessful party, which is irony, since one would expect that he would clean up an experiment, figured out that since it was impossible to invent a improbability drive he just needed to calculate how unlikely it actually was. The process as it is explained itself follows a logical structure that ends in the invention; however the end result is so absurd and impossible that this process is called logical fallacy. Precisely the fact that it is absurd causes the amusement in the reader. Also in service of that improbability is the use of intertextuality which is another literary device applied and references to the argument that if enough monkeys have a typewriter, eventually one types the script for Hamlet, again an absurd scenario and therefore amusing. The absurdity of the passage enforced by the literary devices is responsible in the humour of the probability of the improbable.