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- From: u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries)
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- Subject: Re: Comment on MH
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:35:26 GMT
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- Eyvind Bernhardsen (eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO) wrote:
- > In article <martin.727472687@marsh>, martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
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- > > >Yep, I agree. But I still would read the 6th part...
- > >
- > > So would I... but I would feel he had sold out to his principles.
- > > No, I like it finished. Doesn't mean we can't have some very
- > > similar characters popping up in future Dirk Gently books, though. :)
-
- > Oh yes it does... The DG books are set on Earth, aren't they? And for DA to keep
- > his precious principles ( ;) intact, he couldn't use ANY more humans or other
- > Earth-derived lifeforms, or even the planet itself, in any more books. So there!
-
- Not entirely. In The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul, quite a bit of it was set
- in Valhalla, which isn't exactly on Earth.
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