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- From: C.L.Gannon@newcastle.ac.uk (C.L. Gannon)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
- Subject: Re: Pizza...
- Message-ID: <C178Cr.Eot@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 10:12:26 GMT
- References: <7630@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
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- In article <7630@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>, dauldb@solb1.essex.ac.uk (DAulignac D D) writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- >I've just started to read 'The long dark tea-time of the soul' from
- >Douggie and there is something that irritates me.
- > In Chapter one he explains that Kate often gets depressed on
- >english soil because the people are to stupid to realise that pizza
- >is something that has to be delivered and then eaten in front of the TV
- >(a situation that fortunately has been relived in our latter days).
- > Now, Dirk's kitchen, who lives in North London, is descrived in
- >Chapter 3:
- >
- > Like most of the rooms in Dirk's house it was large, looming and
- >utterly dishellved. It simply sneered at anybody's attempt to tidy it,
- >sneered at them and brushed them aside like one of the small pile of dead
- >and disheartened flies that lay beneath the window, on top of a pile of
- >old pizza boxes.
- > ^^^^^
- >
- >Now, one might think that those boxes were from frozen pizza packages, but
- >as one recalls there was a full-scale war going on between Dirk and his
- >cleaning maid over the non-fridge-opening. So if the fridge was not separated
- >into freezer and cooling compartment, and since Duggie describes it as
- >looking like a monolith what proves this theory, it would have been impossible
- >for Dirk to store the frozen pizza unless he would have a separate freezer
- >(i.e. appart from the fridge) and this would-be-important-fact is not
- >mentioned in the description of the kitchen.
- > So Dirk does NOT store the pizza. Does he go to the store and
- >prepares it imediately after buying it? How can it be explained that
- >Dirk has pizza boxes lying on the fridge? Does he have a maniatic obsession
- >for the collection of pizza boxes, the author does not inform us of in his else
- > so detailed description of characters? Does he steal them from his neighbours
- >trashcans?
- > I'm stuck and I'll be grateful for any sugestions to where the
- >solution of this tricky problem, that doesn't let me sleep until 3.00 AM, lies.
- >
- >Later,
- > Diego.
- >
- >"Gelb", dachte er.
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- the answer is quite simple he eas gone to the restaurent that makes
- the pizzas and got a take away. noticekate misses not havng pizza
- delivered she doesn't want to go out and pick it up herself.
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