The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

March 11, 2017

March 11, 1952

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) famously begins with a hero who's job includes finding missing cats. Douglas Adams (March 11, 1952 to May 11, 2001) paints this amusing scenario for Dirk Gently, who, as we learn, is capable of saving the universe by time-traveling.  So his last cat case is solved with no effort, since, the cat not ever getting lost, is just one of the tiny, unpredictable details, that result from his tinkery time-travel.  This is not surprising when we recall a fundamental assumption of the Holistic Detective Agency: everything is connected.
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