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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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Quotations
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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Quotes
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) is a comic novel by the British writer Douglas Noel Adams . Quotations here are cited from the 1991 Pocket Books reprint ( ISBN 0671746723 ) Chapter 1 This time there would be no witnesses. Chapter 1, p. 1...


Author Biography

Name: Douglas Adams
Birth Date: March 11, 1952
Place of Birth: Cambridge, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Douglas Adams
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The son of a theology teacher/management consultant and a nurse, Douglas Adams attended Cambridge University, studying English literature. While at school, he spent much of his time writing sketches for Cambridge Footlights, a theatrical club which provi...
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Biography of Douglas Adams
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"Every particle of the universe . . . affects every other particle, however faintly or obliquely. Everything interconnects with everything. The beating of a butterfly's wings in China can affect the course of an Atlantic hurricane. If I could interrogate...
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Biography of Douglas (Noel) Adams
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With the publication of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1979, Douglas Adams both established a cult and became a cult figure. He continued his saga with four more novels--The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe, and...


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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Information
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams. It is described on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time-travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". Like many of Adams' stories, its plot defies easy...


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Intertextuality
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General intertextuality with regard to Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"


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