----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:59 AM Subject: RE: New HHGttG trailer! > Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > > At 10:48 02/18/2005, Casey Rousseau wrote: > > >As to that, certainly the HHG series went to some fairly > > >strange places, but that was half the fun. Don't forget, > > >this is a series in which the Earth is destroyed in the > > >first act of the first novel. > > > > Was it? I haven't seen the TV or heard the radio versions, > > but as I remember, Arthur Dent returned to Earth, which > > wasn't destroyed until the follow-on novel _So Long, and > > Thanks for all the Fish_. Do I misremember? > > Well, the chronology had gotten more than a bit tangled by that stage. Or, > as _Mostly Harmless_, "the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth > novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy" opens: > > "The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of > reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a > little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been > happening anyway." > > Casey > > Probably one to many Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. Although I have heard that one IS too many. . . . . Jeff merrily bashing his head in with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick