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

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thank you, that was an interesting read. i'm assuming my textual reference wasn't clear?

sorry, make that *literary* reference...

I don't recognise the exact reference - but it must be either Euripedes or Racine, no?

ah, hmm . that exposes my lack of reading. no, the style of reference is Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I just visited your space. apart from the startlingly unsubtle references to the chimp and DNA (the molecule, not Adams - on second thoughts, perhaps a twisted reference to Adams) is there any other reference I might have missed?

Ah! Yes - sounds familar now. But I always thought that Pirsig was better on Motorcycle than he was on Zen. I got all my Buddhism from D. T. Suzuki and Christmas Humphries.

The None Billion Names of Edward is a reference to a Tibetan Buddhist belief...as related by Arthur C. Clarke. Once all the names of god are known, the stars start going out.

And my name is a sideswipe at a notorious charlatan who markets himself as a philosopher.

(By the way...I should state firmly that I am a born-again militant atheist fundamentalist)

>> (By the way...I should state firmly that I am a born-again militant atheist fundamentalist )

but i knew that already. for the record, I am simply a skeptic, and seeker of minimum complexity. That, I find, covers more than enough positions.