Jimi Hendrix and Charles Darwin Greenland and PowerBooks The British author not only wrote The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy but also interlinked what s seemingly incompatible with an unrivaled knack for playing with the diversity of the big picture by Wiebke Brauer THE INTERWOVEN WORLD OF DOUGLAS ADAMS Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Douglas Adams books is that while everyone interprets the men tal pictures painted in them differently his works also unite people This is primarily owed to the holistic brace that keeps Adams worlds in orbit his sense of humor a biting British way of poking fun at blind belief in tech nology and ideologies in general at very earthly absurdities and fears Another reason is his uncanny ability to interweave a wide variety of topics robotics and emotions evolution and digitization poetry and ex traterrestrials Douglas Adams the master weaver of the world riddle Writer Stephen Fry who was a friend of Adams wrote about him We never quite knew how conflict ing and insane the universe was or how ludicrous and feeble minded the human race could be until Douglas explained it in the uniquely affable paradoxical and un forced style that marks him out for greatness Another thing that might be mentioned here Adams work is not what s commonly regarded as high literature His jokes are often silly and while his lega cy includes a community of devoted fans there s also an equally large number of people who have absolute ly no use for his works such as The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy a series of novels about the interstellar adventures of Arthur Dent an average working class UK citizen That said in order to understand Douglas Adams one should look at his entire works and his views about Life the Universe and Everything Zoologist rock musician system software designer For starters one could consider the fact that Doug las Noël Adams was anything but an otherworldly sci fi writer When asked what other dream career he could imagine for himself he once responded extensively Zo ologist rock musician system software designer That outlines the colorful cosmos of the author who was born in Cambridge in 1952 pretty well In school he had a keen interest in science and later studied English litera ture at St John s College where he was awarded a schol arship for an essay on the religious poetry in texts of the British poet William Blake and the Beatles That goes to show that as early as in 1971 his way of thinking was any thing but linear During his student days Adams joined various comedy groups got to meet the founders of Monty Py thon and went on to work with them after graduating but wasn t able to make a living that way In the mid 1970s 72 73

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