2633: Storm In A Teacup

[jen_aside]

Sorry, I've been sick -_- and most of my higher functions have been devoted to not feeling like total crap. Problem is I need sleep but can't get it because 1. New Year's meant nobody wanted to sell me NyQuil or orange juice, and 2. with what I have, even with NyQuil and orange juice, I end up waking up every couple of hours with severe dry mouth

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[digoraccoon]

I read a while back an old interview with Adams where the 5th book in the trilogy (Mostly Harmless) was written during a difficult period in his life so that it was hard to do anything "Happy" in that book. He mentioned that maybe it could have turned out better, but he decided to let the coins lay where they fell.

[jen_aside]

1. I would like to see this interview.
2. The problem is not that it's happy, as such, but it's very badly scrapped-together. Everything from the fourth and fifth books lead up to the demise of most of the major characters, but the radio broadcast abruptly pulls them from that fate and throws them into Milliways, including bringing Marvin back after his finally getting to die happy.

It's almost but not quite entirely unlike a scene out of the H2G2 series proper. I mean, I recognize they didn't want to end what was a radio broadcast with such a bleak outcome, but at least make it FIT.

[digoraccoon]

I think I found it:
http://www.mattnewsome.co.uk/
"So, there will come a point I suspect at some point in the future where I will write a sixth Hitch-Hiker book. But I kind of want to do that in an odd kind of way because people have said, quite rightly, that "Mostly Harmless" is a very bleak book. And it was a bleak book. The reason for that is very simple - I was having a lousy year, for all sorts of personal reasons that I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background. And, guess what, it was a rather bleak book"

[jenova_silver]

More RAM would help. (if your compy can handle several gigabytes, you can get photoshop to run better, (set RAM partiion to use 75% of available RAM, kill extraneous processes, have a spare hard disk set as Photoshop's scratch disk....)