![]() He has fallen in love with her like you would never think that the shy and insecure Arthur could, as that part of his character is not emphasised by Adams before this fourth book in the trilogy. The protagonist of all the Hitch-Hiker’s books, Arthur Dent, finally gets it going with Fenchurch, the strange and beautiful cello-playing girl of his dreams. In So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish Adams pays tribute to Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. (If he had lived to see the iPod as well, it would probably have been one of his dreams come true, just like it has been mine, but that is another story altogether). You see, Douglas Adams was a great music fan, and also a Dire Straits fan. On the surface it would seem that this has nothing at all to do with Dire Straits at all, but it turns out to be quite the opposite. ![]() Sadly, DNA is now dead, but his legacy lives on in humour and music. I have been a huge fan of Douglas Adams since the mid-1980s, when I first heard the BBC radio plays of HHGG and then later read the HHGG novels. ![]() A few years after I had tried to learn the solo from Tunnel of Love I read the latter parts of Douglas Adams’ Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (in five parts, of course), namely Life, the Universe and Everything and So long, and thanks for all the fish. ![]()
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