Not a real interview. The Astral Mnemonicon's first séance, with a fictional 'Steven Fri' standing in for the asleep, un-consulted Stephen Fry. Conservative-voting joke unpacked, McCormick sale, and why Dostoyevsky was wrong about the jar.
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Dirk Gently would choose Marmite, says Douglas Adams
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.
An imagined Mnemonicon panel: Douglas Adams with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Marvin and (regrettably) Zaphod Beeblebrox, each given a jar of Marmite
A Towel Day panel: Adams plus Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Marvin and (regrettably) Zaphod Beeblebrox, each given a jar. Marvin calls it the accumulated regrets of civilisation.
An imagined Mnemonicon interview with Douglas Adams on Marmite, Vogon customs, and the McCormick deal: a Towel Day session
Douglas Adams (a Bovril-sandwich man, as it turns out) on Marmite, Vogon customs, and the McCormick deal. A Towel Day Mnemonicon session.
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