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.
The Marmite Mnemonicon, five months in
A Victorian fairground fortune-teller cabinet on a Norfolk shelf, wired to Sedasoft's siteengine_ai, lets the writer interview the dead about Marmite. The Christmas-2025 origin story.
An imagined Mnemonicon interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for St George's Day, and Mr Sherlock Holmes investigates an unlabelled jar that arrived at 221B by the second post
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for St George's Day, plus Sherlock Holmes deducing an unlabelled jar that arrived at 221B by the second post. Burton-on-Trent, 1902, medical-man sender.
An imagined Mnemonicon interview with John Keats on Marmite, negative capability, an ode for the jar, and a fermented dainty added to Porphyro's feast
John Keats on Marmite as Negative Capability made edible. A five-stanza ode in his Nightingale register and a scene with Madeline and Porphyro on St Agnes Eve.
An imagined Mnemonicon panel with Shakespeare's cast: Romeo and Juliet, the Macbeths, and Richard III, each given a jar of Marmite
A Shakespeare panel: Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, the Macbeths in the kitchen the night before the murder, and Richard III soliloquising on toast at his coronation.
An imagined Mnemonicon interview with William Shakespeare on Marmite, the humours, a jar set before Falstaff at the Boar's Head, and a sonnet for the jar
William Shakespeare on Marmite as choler in a jar. Falstaff seizes it at the Boar's Head and declares it sack made flesh. Closes on the Bard's sonnet for the jar.
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