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- From: dluckma3@mach1.wlu.ca (david luckman 9209 U)
- Subject: Re: Pizza...
- References: <7630@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <C17LFz.CxD@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <21JAN199308115170@acad1.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:11:43 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...
-
- Marvin knows the answer, but as it remains undisclosed perhaps there is no
- result. Results may only occur if both the question and answer are spoken.
- (Like Spells from magic, people write them down and read them but unless
- spoken or properly gestured nothing happens.)
-
- Dave
-