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#Dirk gently holistic detective agency Patch#
In the second series, one of the main characters, Farah, wears a jacket with a 42 patch on the arm, and one of the characters had a dog is named Agrajag.
It is also mentioned that the projects of Blackwing have been loose for fifteen, almost sixteen, years, which is about the same amount of time that Ford Prefect was stranded on Earth. This is a reference to Frankie and Benjy mouse, who were actually pan-dimensional beings.
#Dirk gently holistic detective agency series#
The first series involves the movement of souls belonging to both animals and people, resulting, at one point, with people being inside the bodies of mice.
#Dirk gently holistic detective agency tv#
As with the Dirk Gently books, Thor is mentioned several times in this TV series. In the first episode Dirk says that “there was a bit about a sofa, a thing with Thor…”, which is a reference to events that occurred in the Hitchhiker's novel Life, the Universe and Everything, and also a reference to the Dirk Gently books, as in the first book there is an incident with a sofa stuck in a wall, and in the second Thor is a character who appears. In a couple of episodes a character says 'possible' then corrects it with 'probable', which is likely a reference to probability and the Infinite Improbability Drive. There are also said to be 42 members of an organisation called Blackwing. In the first series, the number 42 shows up a few times, such as on the wall of a death maze which Dirk Gently and his assistant/friend Todd Brotzman encounter. The 2016 BBC America adaption (later released on Netflix) included several references to Hitchhiker's. Richard asks, "Do you carry a towel with you everywhere?" This is an obvious reference to the Guide's stance on towels. But thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo? In these two delightfully odd detective stories Douglas Adams (1952-2001), explores once again the realm of the unknown, in the style of science fiction that brought him fame with 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.In the first book, Dirk Gently hands Richard Macduff a towel. However, no rational cause can be found for the explosion, it was simply designated an act of God. The usual people try to claim responsibility. As 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' opens, a passenger check in desk at Heathrow Airport shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flames. In 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' a simple search for a missing cat reveals two ghosts, a dodo, an Electric Monk, the devastating secret that lies behind the whole of human history and threatens to bring it to a premature close, and, finally, the utterly terrifying reason why Richard MacDuff has had a sofa stuck on his stairs for three weeks. Dirk Gently, however, does not like to eliminate the impossible. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Dirk Gently calls himself a 'holistic detective' and above all, he believes in 'the interconnectedness of all things'.
There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Dirk Gently is a detective, well a sort of detective. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '9 10'.
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