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i didn't think about it at the time, didn't anticipate that there was a wiki page just for the person, when the other day i recommended that the best work of adams' to read, if you were to read only one, is dirk gently's holistic detective agency, that one of its many virtues is that (and this does not spoil the story at all, this could be on the dust jacket), the identity of the person from porlock is therein revealed. funny thing.