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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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"Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" - Can someone explain the plot?
I can't answer all of these, but I think you have a few misconceptions.
Firstly, I don't think Odin sold his soul to anyone. On the contrary, the Draycotts sold their souls to him in return for riche …
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Was Douglas Adams influenced by Lewis Carroll, with his '42' answer and others things?
The only documented relationship is that the episodes of the first two radio series were called "Fit the First" etc, after the Hunting of the Snark which you quote.
However the idea of Adams doing ca …
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Why was Arthur Dent surprised by Slartibartfast's name?
It's supposed to sound rude. Adams wanted the character to have an ancient sadness about something, and eventually decided that the source of his sadness should be his name. So he tried to come up wit …
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Is there any explanation for why a planet would need to be destroyed to create a hyperspatia...
Just to add to Gilles' excellent answer, posted as a separate answer because you can't do spoiler-protection in comments:
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Did Douglas Adams say "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe."?
As DavidW says in the comments, the dialog in Fit the Sixth of the radio series is slightly different, and does include (very nearly) that quote.
ARTHUR: That's it. Six by nine. Forty-two. I always s …
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