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- From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
- Subject: Re: Pizza...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.190716.26508@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <7630@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <C17LFz.CxD@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <21JAN199308115170@acad1.alaska.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:07:16 GMT
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- In article <21JAN199308115170@acad1.alaska.edu>, jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J) writes:
- > >PS Has anyone looked up the references supposedly supporting
- > >recent theory regarding "The Question"?
- > >Marvin with the mattress and Eddie I think.
- > >The Question being - "Think of a number, any number"
- >
- > That was what I thought it was, too. I'm glad someone else thought so. But
- > it's actually (at least in the books) in the scene where they're trying to get
- > into the Justice office to talk to Prak about the truth. Arthur picks the
- > phone number for the customer service office of British Rail or something like
- > that on the grounds that "it may have some use, and this might turn out to be
- > it."
- >
- > However, Marvin's asking the mattress the same question, then saying that the
- > answer the mattress gave was wrong, is intriguing as evidence, since Marvin
- > read the question from Arthur's brain. But of course Marvin knows the
- > answer... and Prak said that if anyone knew both, the universe would vanish.
- > So how could Marvin have the right question? Hmmm...
-
- Anyway, there's a very simple test. If you think of something, and the universe
- suddenly disappears, you know you've found the Question!
-
- -Eyvind
-
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- //| | DISCLAIMER: I don't HAVE opinions.
- // | | I just repeat what everyone else says!
- \\ //--|miga: There can be only one. |
- \X/ | eyvind@lise.unit.no | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Ackpth!
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