Self-Referential Creepitude

[the_gneech]

I have, at work, been re-listening to my audiobook edition of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as read by the author, the late great Douglas Adams.

Today, I happened upon the passage where Dirk Gently is listening to the taped message Gordon Way left on Susan's answering machine before being shot, and there's a bit about how Dirk feels slightly creepy listening to the dead man's voice on the tape.

So I was listening to a dead man's voice on tape, talking about listening to a dead man's voice on tape.

Strangely enough, I didn't get creeped out. I suspect that it's because if I were to encounter the ghost of Douglas Adams, I would expect the first thing to happen, after I asked for his autograph, would be that he would demand a cup of tea.

-The Gneech

Comments

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Something of the same flavour, but more deliberately, is in the Tertiary Phase of the radio program, wherein Agrajag is played post-mortem by Adams courtesy of a recording of a stage reading of LtU&E he had done once. And so, here's Douglas Adams, complaining bitterly about being dredged up from the afterlife again and again for the whims of Arthur Dent.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I have this idea it was from his reading of Life, the Universe, and Everything for another audiobook, but I'm not positive of that. (The audiobook version of that I have has Stephen Moore/Marvin/Eddie, with his voice jiggery-pokied in the appropriate spots for Marvin.)

-The Gneech

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Of course, being as you would be forced by your location to give him American tea, he would then haunty you forever. =^_^=

-=TK

[packbat.livejournal.com]

What, and be unable to get good tea? Are you mad?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Well, if he's in America in the first place, he'll be stuck here, 'cause ghosts can't cross over water.

-=TK

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Douglas Adams posthumously taught me to make a really excellent cup of tea.

[smrgol-t-kirin.livejournal.com]

I had the chance to talk almost one-on-one with Douglas Adams on a couple of occasions. He was VERY interesting. Unfortunately I didn't find out until after his passing that we shared March 11th as a birthday.

[moonfires.livejournal.com]

I have his autograph. Unfortunately not obtained in person.