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• Post #2062433

  Douglas Adams once said something, answering a question from a fan about whether Arthur Dent was a “hero”, and whether the Hitchhiker stories were “gaily whimsical” or cynical. The whole thing won't fit here (see: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/) but quoting the main part: > I suspect there is a cultural divide at work here. In England our heroes tend to be characters who either have, or come to realise that they have, no control over their lives whatso...

• Post #699824

  I've been re-reading _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ by Douglas Adams, and he seems even more prescient now than he did when I first read the books 20 years ago. More on that some other time. Anyway, in the copy I was reading from, _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_ has a preface by Terry Jones (of Monty Python), who in passing says: > Nobody, I suspect, reads the Hitchhiker books for their plot. Not many, I would suppose, read them for their characters (a...