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- From: jens@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Jens Krabbe)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
- Subject: Re: Help with Long Dark Tea-Time
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:06:49 GMT
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- bmadsen@dsd.es.com (Bruce Madsen) writes:
-
- >I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could tell me what happened at
- >the end of _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ (i.e., what deals were
- >worked out in Valhalla?)
-
- As far as I remember, Odin sold his imortality to the mortal couple at
- Valhalla only for them to be killed shortly after by the eagle materializing
- as a jet fighter aeroplane. The result being that Odin got his white
- linen guaranteed for the rest of his life, and everything else went
- back to more or less normal again. Of course I could be wrong.
-
- >For that matter, I'd appreciate it if anyone could unravel the whole
- >tangled plot for me -- I'm not much of a sleuth and the whole thing
- >confused me a wee bit. %^/
-
- Unless others answer this for you, I think you'll have to resort to
- read the book once more.
-
- Jens
-