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From: SR.KAUFMAN@MIT-SPEECH
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Subject: Ford Prefect
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 10:16:47 EDT
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From: SR.KAUFMAN@MIT-SPEECH

Poking around in a bookstore last night, I saw that Harmony books has
put out an "Omnibus Edition" of the first three Hitchhiker's books,
with "A New Introduction by Douglas Adams".  The introduction
describes and in part explains how the HHG saga started, and where all
the story lines branch off from each other.  There is also a comment
about Ford's name: Adams explains that Americans did not get the joke,
because the Ford Prefect was only sold in England, but that Ford had
"simply mistaken the dominant life form".

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