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Instacast douglas2/3/2024 Seven years before the Kindle was invented, Adams wrote: “The real electronic book will be a standalone device which connects wirelessly to the net.” The archive includes ideas for things that have now come to pass: e-commerce, Wikipedia, online gaming and so on. Typically for Adams, his complaining quickly morphs into an imagined conversation with a dragon called Lionel. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a burk. He goes on to reference the legacy of Hitchhiker’s. I haven’t actually written anything for two days, and that makes me fed up as well.’ On another page of typed notes, Adams wrote: “Today I am monumentally fed up with the idea of writing. “I think it was a tortuous process for him, not all the time, but when it was difficult for him it was really difficult.” “I love it, but I just wish he’d read it to himself more often,” his sister Jane Thrift said. The crowdfunded book shines light on his best-known work, including Hitchhiker’s and Dirk Gently, as well as unrealised projects such as a dark theme park ride at Chessington World of Adventures.Ī number of documents reveal how horrible the writing process could be for Adams, not least the “general note to myself” with which he reminded himself that he would get there in time. The fascinating note will be in a book based on the abundant trove of unseen letters, scripts, jokes, poems, ideas, ID cards and to-do notes in the archive left by Adams after his death in 2001, aged 49. The general note to myself by Douglas Adams.
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