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IP: Re: Douglas Adams, Author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Dies at 49
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:54:07 -0400
X-Sender: >X-Sender: mnemonic@166.84.0.212 Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:41:12 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic () well com> Subject: Re: IP: Douglas Adams, Author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Dies at 49 I interviewed him for my college newspaper back in 1982. He was perfectly pleasant and entertaining as we sat drinking tequila sunrises in the bar in Austin's Driskill Hotel. He had a tendency to start sentences and not finish them before beginning a wholly new sentence fuelled by a different thought. (It was very hard to transcribe his remarks for this reason.) I was thinking of Adams just yesterday as I was reading Michael Chabon's THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY. There's a point at which Kavalier and his mentor think they have found the golem of Prague, secreted in an apartment building in apartment number ... 42. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- "I speak the password primeval .... I give the sign of democracy ...." --Walt Whitman Mike Godwin can be reached by phone at 202-637-9800 His book, CYBER RIGHTS, can be ordered at http://www.panix.com/~mnemonic . --------------------------------------------------------------------
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