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Old 02-03-2009, 06:19 AM   #1
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A little piece of trivia...

I've just been reading an article about spiritual autobiography: 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners' and came across something that caught my attention. Referring to the books Bunyan's wife is known to have brought with her, and suggested as a possible link to the style of work Bunyan later produced, I found this:

Arthur Dent's The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven


I had no idea that The Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy was such an outstanding pun!
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Old 02-03-2009, 06:58 AM   #2
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re-parse

DanaC was reading an article about a book written in the 1600s by imprisoned preacher John Bunyan, called 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'. The article mentions some books that Bunyan's wife had, one of which was called

Arthur Dent's The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven

It turns out that Arthur Dent was a real person: an early Puritan author. DanaC was struck by how the absolute genius of how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the central character is named Arthur Dent, is actually an outstanding pun on this earlier tome.

Me too. Douglas Adams is my hero.
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:08 AM   #3
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Why the re-parse?

Anyway, wow!
I had no idea either. I love it when things fall into place

Now, find me a similar piece of trivia about Slartibastfast.
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:22 AM   #4
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'cause it was a little .....scattered? caffeinated, maybe? It took beest and I a couple of readings but yes, cool find
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:47 AM   #5
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I think I think too much like Dana sometimes...
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Old 02-03-2009, 10:38 AM   #6
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Awesome.
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Old 02-03-2009, 10:39 AM   #7
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Old 02-03-2009, 11:06 AM   #8
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I was reading The Salmon of Doubt this morning.
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Originally Posted by DNA
The following morning the weather was so foul it hardly deserved the name, and Dirk decided to call it Stanley instead. Stanley wasn’t a good downpour. Nothing wrong with a good downpour for clearing the air. Stanley was the sort of thing you needed a good downpour to clear the air of. Stanley was muggy, close, and oppressive, like some one large and sweaty pressed up against you in a tube train. Stanley didn’t rain, but every so often he dribbled on you. Dirk stood outside in the Stanley.
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Old 02-04-2009, 03:08 PM   #9
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Well I did very much needed the re-parse. Interesting.
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