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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: Dave Horlick <drh2@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless (Spoilers)
X-Xxdate: Sat, 7 Nov 92 08: 42:07 GMT
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In article <mmuqTB5w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> Jussi Kantola,
jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi writes:
>  The grebulons did NOT demolish all the Earths!  They blew up just
>  the one, and it was enough -- along went the only persons who had
>  survived the original demolition and started to hitch-hike around
>  the galaxy, time and probability.  Arthur and Trillian were the
>  _only_ Arthur and Trillian, who had survived the 'first' demolition,
>  and killing them was enough to get the job Done!  In all the other
>  Earths that had been demolished, Arthur and Trillian (Tricia) had gone
>  within'!  And, once again, they were brought to that particular
>  Earth by temporal reverse engineering.

I figure things slightly differently. The way I see it, every mice-made
Earth after the time of readout presents the threat of revealing the
Ultimate Question to the universe. So every one had to get destroyed to
placate the psychiatrists. Obviously the Vogons couldn't destroy that
many Earths (where they could easily have zapped one.) So the Vogon
Captain had the Guide II devise a scheme to do in every possible Earth
with an independent sequence of events in each cross-section of the
WSOGMM. The four-leaf clover Earth is just one of those Earths, and we
only hear about it because the Arthur that we followed in the Hitchhiker
series happened to end up in it.
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From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: Vanity Plates
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:47:45 GMT

In article <eJuXTB1w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>Mine says XYZZY; (not from hitchhikers, but along the same lines) a word 
>from the old ADVENT game. People always ask what it means. Occasionally, 
>though, someone shouts either "PLUGH" (a synonym) or "NOTHING HAPPENS" 
>(what happens when you type xyzzy in the wrong place).

Wasn't that spelled XUZZY? At least I remember that worked...
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From: jgh@plasma.apana.org.au (John Gerald Howell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Is 'Mostly Harmless' the end?
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:14:22 GMT
Organization: APANA site, Melbourne, Australia

Anyone heard anything about the future of the hitch-hiker series?
Is 'Mostly Harmless' the ultimate end? It seems that way on reading it,
but has anyone talked to Douglas Adams himself about it (at a book
signing or whatever) Or are we going to see a new Dirk Gently novel? Or
something different altogether? Any news appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S - my towel would also appreciate some news.

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John Howell Melbourne Australia (jgh@plasma.apana.org.au)
Bowman's final message upon entering the monolith:
'My God, it's full of stars.' - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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Subject: Re: Douglas Adams ib Cambridge, Mass
From: mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan)
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:33:01 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Nov4.003144.9065@cfa203.harvard.edu> somak@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Somak Raychaudhury) writes:
>
>
>Douglas Adams read excerpts from "Mostly Harmless" and "Last Chance to See"
>in a public session organized by WordsWorth of Harvard Square
>at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass on Tuesday October 20.

Stuff deleted
>
>On the whole, it was one of the most memorable evenings I've ever
>spent. Like all other WordsWorth reading events (last year, I'd been
>to similar events with David Lodge, Gloria Steinem and Al Gore
>reading their respective new books),
>the tickets were free, and had been distributed two weeks before
>the event. Naturally, the tix were gone within a few minutes of appearance,
>and, as always, I
>had arrived too late for the tickets. Fortunately, on the day,
>some of the ticket-holders did not show up, so I was one of the thirty
>or so let in from a queue of about 200 outside the theatre. I had waited
>for about 1.5 hr in the queue, but I'm not complaining.
>
>Somak Raychaudhury
>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
>Cambridge, MA 02138.

Erm, isn't this post a little late?  All this was posted a while back.
I know, because I posted it.  Just letting you know:)

Matt

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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: how to get original tv hitchhiker's series.
Date: 8 Nov 92 04:38:21 GMT

I second that request!  I got a chance to see part of a copy of a copy of
the first couple of episodes of the series (that was last summer), and I
want to see more.  Any information gladly accepted, etc, etc. :)

- Eric S.

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From: little@bellatrix.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (H. Mark Little)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: "QED"
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:46:10 GMT
Reply-To: little@sol.crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research & Development

In article <BxGJ4B.Bys@dei.unipd.it>, roto@elena.dei.unipd.it (Roberto Totaro) writes:
|> >>[question about QED deleted for brevity]
|> 
|> 	QED means Quod Erat Demonstrandum, that is: "What has to be
|> 	demonstrated".
Right expansion of the acronym, (slightly) wrong translation.  Should be "As
*has [already] been* demonstrated".  The past tenst is relevant.

|> 	Bye bye folks,
|> 
|> 				Roberto			 

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From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:21:57 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu

In article <1d9vqmINN54u@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, ST102315@brownvm writes:
>Unfortunately for the Earth, this way out is impossible as the Guide
>Mark II was destroyed at the same time the rest of the Earths were.

But don't forget that the Guide II's natural time order is backwards
from the rest of ours.  It vanished out of all possibility in *our*
sense of time.  In its own sense of time, it was just then created.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
From: hochsteindav@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Young Zaphod-Huh?
Date: 8 Nov 92 23:29:21 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA


	I'm sure many of you have read it, so could you tell me where " Young
 Zaphod Plays It Safe" fits in with the other books.  Or quite possibly the point 
of the story?  I like it but I still haven't figured out how it fits in.  

Thanks

Doc
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From: msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: Chicago Booksigning report/etc. 
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:59:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.141751.23575@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> ccullen@ops-2.Naitc.Com (Carolyn Cullen) writes:
>He says his next project is another Dirk Gently book. Looks like 
>Mostly Harmless is the end of Hitchhikers, but he didn't swear to it.

When he was in Evanston on Friday and someone asked him if he was going to
write another Hitchhiker's book, he said, "I'll repeat what I said after I
wrote the second book, and after the third, and after the fourth.  Absolutely
and utterly no.  No possible way I'm going to write another."  Make of it what
you will :)

--Mike
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From: djesimps@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:21:19 GMT

In article <BxID7y.CC4@cs.bham.ac.uk>, amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood) writes:
> djesimps@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson) writes:
> 
> > [Stuff about VR Accounts System]
> 
> > Anyhow, Ford likes all animals in the universe, except geese. He just
> > felt that he'd done enough with all the other causes he was helping out in, and
> > it was time that something else suffered.
> 
> But *WHY* does't he like geese?
> 
> Andy...
> -- 
> 
> Andy Wood : amw@cs.bham.ac.uk

Well, I guess it goes under the category of 'Just because'.  :)

I believe it says something about why in the book, but my personal opinion
is that DNA himself dislikes them. (Maybe they disrupted one too many hours
of sleep..)

Darel J. Simpson
djesimps@descartes.uwaterloo.ca

	Look, the newbie posted again!
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From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: Pizza delivery
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:37:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.075801.9678@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, ENGC9241548F@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (WALSH,Michael J.) writes:
|> I was both amused and shocked when I first read Long Dark Tea-Time of the
|> Soul and learnt that Londoners, if not all of England, don't have pizza
|> delivery. Has society evolved there since then or is it still a hellish
|> world in which delivered pizza simply does not exist? How can you people
|> live?
|> 					-Michael W.

I cannot speak for people in London, as I don't live there (funnily enough :),
but there are delivered pizzas in other parts of the country. I would
imagine that this is the case now in London too.

My question is this:

  Was LDTotS instrumental in bringing about this much improved 
   state of affairs?

Donal.

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 Everything that I can pry loose is not nailed down."
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From: fenick1@husc10.harvard.edu (Sharon Fenick)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:54:35 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <95675@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
[...]
>mishap!  (Which has one problem.  How did Tricia recognize Arthur
>at the end, simultaneously with Trillian?  Of course, I don't really
>believe that she recognized Arthur after 17 years from a dull party
>that led to the non-Zaphod adventure, either.  Thoughts?)  Moreover,
[...]
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)

Well, she seemed to have been a wee bit obsessive about the events
of that night, and besides, I had always thought that the reason
Arthur was upset was because he was really hitting it off with her
when she left.  If she had missed going with Zaphod, she was still
at the party, and I'm sure Arthur would have kept trying, right? So,
let's see, Tricia (not Trillian anymore, and without the possibility
to become Trillian now) is distraught at a party, feeling emotions that
plague her even years later, and Arthur's hitting on her.  I think I'd
remember him, very well, actually.

Sharon
From: thanatos@korova.freeside.com (Thanatos)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Mostly Harmless spoilers and the rest of the HHG series
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 16:05:01 CST
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783


Hi,
Well, for no particular reason at all, I have decided to start reading 
the whole HHG series again after reading _MH_.. I have found a BUNCH of 
errors and things that DNA changed after the first 4 books..
Like for one thing:
   Arthur has a digital watch in the first 4, and a winding watch in _MH_
(As mentioned here before..)
   Arthur mentions in _HHG_ that he has a sister, and a dog, however, he 
may have just been babbling about the dog.
   
Oh, and off of _MH_, I've found an error in LtUaE..
When Ford and Arthur got to that Cricket field, they saw Slartibartfast's 
ship.  Sure, they recognized him, but how did he recognize Arthur and 
Ford?  He hadn't met either of them yet!  He doesn't meet them until the 
Earth is nothing but dust in space, and Zaphod and the other Loonies are 
parading around Magrathea.. Had Slartibartfast gone through time and seen 
them, and if so, DNA never mentions that they went back to the future.. 
big loop hole there..
 
Now back to _MH_.. IN HHG, it says when Trillian and Arthur met Zaphod, 
or rather Phil, he had one head and two arms.. in _MH_ it says he had two 
heads and the three arms, but he had a bird cage over the second head and 
kept making squawking noises.. What happened here?
And what they did with Fenchurch was unforgivable.. I LIKED Fenchurch, 
but like ya'll say, she still is with Arthur in another Universe.. 
another Reality.. ohwell..
And just a little thought.. Since Tricia McMillan never left earth in the 
other reality, what happened to that Arthur and Ford and Zaphod in the 
other universe?  The Improbability thing with all of them knowing each 
other would have never happened, and most likely, Arthur and Ford would 
have died of Axphyxiation in deep space one second before the Heart of 
Gold in it's sneaker-likeness would have shown up, which it probably 
wouldn't have, and Zaphod also would probably never have gotten the 
ship!
So there maybe some Arthurs and Fords left in the universes, but i'd like 
to see the originals.. the ones we know and care the most about.. not 
these fake ones.. or were the originals the one in _MH_?  Couldn't be.. 
Arthur wasn't wearing a Digital Watch..

Two to the power of one hundred thousand to one against and falling.

Thanatos - A frood who knows where his towel is

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From: Dave Horlick <drh2@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless (Spoilers)
X-Xxdate: Sat, 7 Nov 92 08: 44:01 GMT
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:38:41 GMT

In article <mmuqTB5w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> Jussi Kantola,
jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi writes:
>  The grebulons did NOT demolish all the Earths!  They blew up just
>  the one, and it was enough -- along went the only persons who had
>  survived the original demolition and started to hitch-hike around
>  the galaxy, time and probability.  Arthur and Trillian were the
>  _only_ Arthur and Trillian, who had survived the 'first' demolition,
>  and killing them was enough to get the job Done!  In all the other
>  Earths that had been demolished, Arthur and Trillian (Tricia) had gone
>  within'!  And, once again, they were brought to that particular
>  Earth by temporal reverse engineering.

I figure things slightly differently. The way I see it, every mice-made
Earth after the time of readout presents the threat of revealing the
Ultimate Question to the universe. So every one had to get destroyed to
placate the psychiatrists. Obviously the Vogons couldn't destroy that
many Earths (where they could easily have zapped one.) So the Vogon
Captain had the Guide II devise a scheme to do in every possible Earth
with an independent sequence of events in each cross-section of the
WSOGMM. The four-leaf clover Earth is just one of those Earths, and we
only hear about it because the Arthur that we followed in the Hitchhiker
series happened to end up in it.
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From: rick@CERCA.UMontreal.CA (Richard Lefebvre)
Subject: Reference of HGG around (Was: Re: Vanity Plates)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:52:11 GMT


To follow the thread of occurence of HGG stuff around like finding
th PGGB drink in a Pub, the vanity plate: ANS 42. Here is a good
one :

In the latest edition of PC Magazine V11N19 there is a company
named: "Arthur Dent Associates Inc." There is a review of their
hardware-software combination of "Pen Computing" for a notebook
PC.  I tought is was a good choice of company name for what they
are making.

Any more of these around?

Note: I have no connection with the company what so ever

Rick
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:15:07 CST
From:         C09615ST@wuvmd.wustl.edu
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Subject:      Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Newsgroups:   alt.fan.douglas-adams

>        One other thought: Didn't anyone think that the whole idea of a
>secret research lab on the 13th floor of a building, which is not shown on
>any plans or on the elevator's floor display, was taken directly from Max
>Headroom?  Perhaps the British version doesn't emphasize it as much, but the
>concept of the 13th floor was of great significance in the American version
>of the Max Headroom pilot.
>

Nope.  My tape of the original British version of Max Headroom has Bryce's R&D
  department on floor 126...which is 42x3...nah...

Let's get alt.fan.max-headroom started again!


Tom
The Wandering Bard
The Itinerant Mandolin Player
And so on...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: "How to leave a planet" - where is this from? 
From: dleclair@netlink.cts.com (Douglas LeClair)
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 23:11:10 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:

> In article <1dc4f3INNarn@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU writes:
> 
> > In article <9gJoTB6w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi
> > (Jussi Kantola) writes:
> 
> > >Could someone tell me where the following text has been published?
> 
> > >                How to Leave the Planet:
> 
> > I think it's been in every bound-as-one-book edition of the trilogy.
> > I've only PERSONALLY seen it in _The Hitchhiker's Trilogy_ and _The More
> > Than Complete Hitchhiker's Trilogy_ (y'know, the leatherbound one).
> 
> I've got it in a plain old hardback edition (what exactly is a
> ``leatherbound'' edition, anyways?  I've never seen any of the HHGTTG
> books with a leather type cover) of {The Hitchhiker's Trilogy / Omnibus
> Edition}.
> 
> later....
>    --jim
> 
> --
 
        How to Leave the Planet was also included with the 
_MORE_THAN_COMPLETE_HITCHHIKER'S_GUIDE_TO_THE_GALAXY_, but the complete 
version is listed at the end of The Hitchhiker's Companion. I am not 
positive where the original originated from.
 
//Doug//

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From: ferret@paradox.engin.umich.edu (kenneth r lipka)
Subject: DNA in Ann Arbor
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:45:34 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: ferret@paradox.engin.umich.edu


	Last night, Douglas Adams was present in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a 
book reading/signing session.  He read from MH ("Arthur on the Planet of the Oracles"), The Restaurant... ("The Gang meets Dinner" and "Marvin as Rearguard"), and from Last Chance to See ("Poisonous Snakes on Komoto" and "Dolphins in the Yangtze(sp) River").  Needless to say, all readings made a big hit.
	He also answered questions from those of us assembled.  A couple of the more interesting Q&A:

Q:  Will there be another Hitchhiker's book?
A:  (paraphrased based on what I remeber) - I've been saying "no" for quite a while now and look where it's got me.  (He also did strongly hint at another when he mentioned that "now that I've tidied things up quite a bit" it would be much easier to write a sequel.

Q:  What about the possibilies of an actual Guide (for MAC,IBM,etc)?
A:  His answer went on about the CD for the PowerBook and how he's become an
expert on computers.  The best part of his answer was when he described his origanal concept of the Guide itself:  "It was about the size of a hand-held calculator with a tiny screen and hundreds of little buttons on it.  You'd have to look up what you wanted in an index, then enter the code number for the subject and read on the screen.  It was big, clunky, and so inefficient it as well have been made by MicroSoft."  (wording not exact except for the last line)

Q:  What is your next project?
A:  A Dirk Gently book.

	And those are pretty much the highlights of the night.  Of course, waiting in line for one hour-fifteen to get a signed copy of MH was worthwhile too.  And as I understand it, today (Nov 13) he's in Minnesota somewhere.  Oh yes, I nearly forgot.  He said the HHGTG videos of the TV series will be available quite soon, but probably on a small street corner in Minnesota and that he'd have to go into "Tower Records with an Uzi" in order for them to be released on any kind of nationwide scale.

	I hope this brief and rough review has been interesting and helpful and will also quiet down that thread about a sixth book in the trilogy.

	Ken Lipka
	ferret@engin.umich.edu