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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams (1987)
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Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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to my mother,
who liked the bit about the horse


[::: AUTHOR'S NOTE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::]

The physical descriptions of St Cedd's College in this book, in so
far as they are specific at all, owe a little to my memories of St
John's College, Cambridge, although I've also borrowed indiscriminately
from other colleges as well. Sir Isaac Newton was at Trinity College in
real life, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was at Jesus.
The point is that St Cedd's College is a completely fictitious
assemblage, and no correspondence is intended between any institutions
or characters in this book and any real institutions or people, living,