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

By the way, WRD, my name comes from a computer game called "Zork Grand Inquisitor" which is a pastiche of traditional fantasy games. It stands for Ageless Faceless Gender Neutral Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person.

What is this nonsense about the characters originally having names?

As the original author of the original peice, which my good friend has spiced up in her own way and with my permission, it is time I weighed in on the conversations about the story born of my ideas. The original story exists nowhere in the guide, although it may some day...

The story was written without names very purposefully. Fairy tales traditionally did not contain names (at the very least, the classic fairy tales such as those written by the Brothers Grimm did not). The lack of names also implies that any of these characters, with all of their flaws, could be anybody and everybody. It is, in a way, meant to be a reflection of life: the idealist view of life vs the realistic view of life. Of course you expect the princess to marry the prince. That's what princesses do, right? And he deserved it, didn't he? Well too bad. Life isn't fair.

And my friends thought I wrote the story simply out of spite of love stories. Bah.

P.S.

Please don't follow the stories of the rejected suitors. That is for me to do and I have done so, in my own quiet secretive way. To have contridicting stories following the same characters would tear out my soul.

All done, go ahead and look.

I am glad to have you on board on this one.

Jeez, that's pretty Grimm -
langsandy

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention - I don't really plan on following them. I considered it for a while, but it didn't take long for me to figure out that I couldn't do it if I wanted to.

You should see about taking something (maybe less personal?) and posting it. You ought to start carving yourself a niche. Knowing you, you could definitely organize a hostile takeover of teh entire Underguide (in a good way). Kelly could certainly be luitenant if she would stop fussing over things and just go. And educate herself a bit. She falls into the trap I used to - writing poetry without reading any of it. I am getting better, though...or trying to, anyway. I've little stomach for "modern poetry." Damn Walt Whitman. I'm just a hopeless romantic. PS, Have you seen "Gaia?" Do you remember it? It's a little different now, tightened up quite a bit. Thoughts?

My my, I seem to be in an awfully good mood tonight. Perhaps it is due to the large amounts of caffine I drank around 10:00pm. Or that I've finally gotten halfway through Zelda (Ocharina of Time). Or that I've had an all-around really good day (). Yes, now that I mention it, that's probably what it is.

Besitos, Awycsrienas,

And I mean it - I'm flattered by your name choice, btw.

where do I find the story?

You can go to the first page of this conversation, and there should be a number at the top starting with "A" (yes, a number that starts with A). Then you either click it or copy and paste it into the URL, I forget which.

Maybe I shouldn't have responded, I don't think I know what I'm talking about.

Or there's always the UG version

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