Heather Simmons writes:
>The librarian's perspective is to compare Encyclopedia Galactica and
>the Guide as information sources. The idea that the accumulated knowledge
>of the universe can be collected in a book-sized gizmo that fits in the
>palm of your hand is quite a concept.
But the Guide *doesn't* pretend to present the accumulated knowledge of the
universe. To descirbe Earth as "Mostly harmless," as the Guide does, belongs
under Humor or Irony, but surely not in Reference.
>I think it's time for a pan-galactic gargle blaster.
There you've hit it squarely with some of the best literary criticism I've
yet read.
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