Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
>
> Frank Nordberg wrote:
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> > P.S. Can anybody recognize which book by which great, English, recently
> > deceased and much lamented author I borrowed that idea from?
>
> The author must be Douglas Adams, but the book... one of the Hitch
> Hiker's Guide novels, I presume?
Douglas, of course, but although the idea would have fitted well into
Hitch Hiker, I actually got it from Dirk Gentle's Holistic Detective
Agency. Douglas' gimmick was not an automatic music listener, but a
video watcher (which probably would have saved even more time ;-)
(end of literary digression)
Frank Nordberg
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