Sep
22
I know I’m a bit late with this news (it took me a while to get to making a graphic for this post) but I LOVE LOVE LOVE that there will be another book added to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Truly amazing!
Eoin Colfer is slated to write the next installment of the five-part trilogy (classic Adams), as per Adams’s widow, Jane Belson’s, request. Wow!
Colfer is probably best known for the Artemis Fowl series; which from many-a-disappointed-Harry-Potter fan, was a far superior read. My nephews will contest! (Airman is currently on my “Holds” list at the library.)
Apparently Adams wanted to write a sixth book following Mostly Harmless, book five of the series, but unfortunately, died before completing his work. (This might sound morbid, but I always thought that Adams was spared 9/11–he died earlier in the same year, in 2001–as maybe some greater force realized his sensitive soul would not be able to stomach such a catastrophe, especially after writing the underpinnings of the modern day world as we know it.)
I hope Colfer’s contribution to Adams’s achievement will generate interest for more books in the series since, six is too perfect, too even, a number for me. (I’m partial to odd numbers.) Douglas Adams’s strength in storytelling relies heavily on relaying to his reader about the imperfection of life, in all its humour, more than the striving of perfection, the ideal that exists differently in each individual’s imagination. That is to say, the oddity of the evenness of life, and not the evenness of the oddity of life. (Why do I feel like I just talked myself into a circle? Thank-you Adams. Thank-you very much.)
However, six conveniently, is a multiple of forty-two; which may mean, I may not have to wait millions of years to discover the Ultimate Question. Until publishing then! Deep thought persists!
IMAGE | Umbra | Conceal towel shelf
Comments
Totally unrelated to your post..that towel rack is cool!
I know it’s so cool! Can you imagine having several of those in the bathroom? Love it!