I put Douglas Adams back in front of the Marmite Mnemonicon and asked about Dirk Gently. The holistic detective, faced with a jar of Marmite and a jar of Bovril, chooses Marmite, justifying it through the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, beer, and fermentation. Then Adams plots a Dirk Gently story in which Bovril is transmuted into Marmite and only Dirk can work out why.
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An imagined Mnemonicon round-robin reunion: six ghosts at one jar, with proper disagreement, and the crossover story Shakespeare asked Adams to tell
Six ghosts at one jar. Churchill, Adams, Shakespeare, Keats, Dostoyevsky and Conan Doyle, with proper disagreement and the Dirk Gently x Ford Prefect crossover Shakespeare asked Adams to tell.
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