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I recently reread Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan" and was really surprised to notice to what degree Adams drew inspiration from that book. He did acknowledge it as an influence [1], but some ideas my naive self had attributed to Adams are closer to well-done rearrangements/retellings of elements from Sirens of Titan (which certainly wasn't written in a vacuum either) in a different comedic voice. Both works are fant…
> Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose. I thought it was just a funny book. What is its "deeply serious purpose"?
- Explorations of meaning
- Delving into the incredibly strange nature of reality
- Musings on the nature of politics and religion and it's relationship to human nature and evolution
It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
I do hope the true ruler of things turns out to be an old bloke in a hut with no interest in anything beyond a vague affection for his (possibly imaginary) cat. Otherwise we’re really in trouble.
Wasn't he OUTSIDE the hut?
> Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose. I thought it was just a funny book. What is its "deeply serious purpose"?
For me, off the top of my head: - Explorations of meaning - Delving into the incredibly strange nature of reality - Musings on the nature of politics and religion and it's relationship to human nature and evolution
It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
I love these books, but why post a pece that is paywalled?
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I think I still have casette tapes of the original run.
Heh, when it was first broadcast here, I taped it off the radio, but I think my tapes are long gone.