h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lots of interesting items and pictures in this one.

The reference in footnote 1?

You must mean: "How Henry Letterbox Rose from the Dead In His Spare Time1" There are no other footnotes numbered 1 (I searched every recurrence of the numeral 1 -- all 18 of them -- in the Post, and the letterbox one was the only actual footnote).

I'm happy with FWR's story, and I look forward to many more storis by him.

Yes, the footnote is to the header. So?

You said something about people not getting the reference. I was checking to see if the Letterbox header was what you referred to. It occurs to me that in a previous Letterbox story, he (or someone else; don't remember exactly) was asked t play Christ. I don't need to say what Christ did, but Letterbox would be well cast in a way.

Ah. Yes, the footnote refers to Henry, but to get the reference you'd have to have read Philip K Dick's 'A Maze of Death'.

Two people can look at the same thing and see different things in it. hence the ink blot tests. And many of the captions of Post photos.

Things that don't need to be explained often turn out to need explanation.

Dick's works are very thought-provoking. Or maybe just provoking

This one isn't open to interpretation. It's merely an obscure reference. In Dick's 'A Maze of Death', there is a sacred text. This text was concocted by him and Charles Bukowski. It's called 'How I Rose from the Dead in My Spare Time, and So Can You.'

Oh, and I said nobody would get it, and that I didn't care.

Be my guest about not caring.

I was interpreting the relationship between your title and FWR's story.
Meaning s in the eye of the beholder.

All I can hope for is that you understand where I am coming from. I do care about that.

Mr Letterbox is now supplying a rather brilliant correspondence course on how to live forever, £3097.89 plus p&p, (no guarantee of eternal life) but you do get a nice certificate at the end.

Got to do something in his spare time. (and it may provide DG with another bizarre Entry... Give it a century or so!)

I'd like a longer life, but as a younger version of myself. Otherwise the Struldbruggs come to mind (Gulliver's travels). They become less happy.