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Book: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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  1. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By Saint John the Divine, as you know. To me it shows very clear signs of having been written while waiting for a ferry. Oh, yes, I think so. It starts off, doesn't it, with that kind of dreaminess you get when you're killing time, getting bored, you know, just making things up, and then gradually grows to a sort of climax of hallucinatory despair.
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  2. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts of paradoxes?"Reg stirred himself from thought. "No worse than many that exist already," he said. "If the universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if its done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. That isn't to say if you get involved in a paradox a few things won't strike you as being very odd, but if you've got through life without that already happening to you, then I don't know which universe you've been living in, but it isn't this one
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  3. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    ...his horoscope had been pretty misleading as well. It had mentioned an unusual amount of planetary activity in his sign and had urged him to differentiate between what he thought he wanted and what he actually needed, and suggested that he should tackle emotional or work problems with determination and complete honesty, but had inexplicably failed to mention that he would be dead before the day was out.
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  4. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    On the wall was a Duran Duran poster on which someone had scrawled in fat red felt tip, "Take this down please."Beneath that another hand had scrawled, "No."Beneath that again the first hand had written, ""I insist that you take it down."Beneath that the second hand had written, "Won't!"Beneath that - "You're fired."Beneath that - "Good!"And there the matter appeared to have rested.
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  5. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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  6. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition, that of a damp and rancid dish cloth.
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  7. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    he found the idea of someone who was not only privileged, but was also sorry for himself because he thought the world didn't really understand the problems of privileged people, deeply obnoxious.
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  8. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    I live in what are known as hopes. I hope for fascinating and remunerative cases, my secretary hopes that I will pay her, her landlord hopes that she will produce some rent, the Electricity Board hopes that he will settle their bill, and so on. I find it a wonderfully optimistic way of life.
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  9. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself.""Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly.
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  10. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson."Let me give you an example. If you go to an acupuncturist with toothache he sticks a needle instead into your thigh. Do you know why he does that, Mrs Rawlinson?No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye.
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  11. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.
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  12. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.
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