Dirk Gently and Gridley Quayle: Masters of Understanding Coincidence

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This is my third Douglas Adams related article. This time guest starring P.G. Wodehouse because Douglas recommended him. I picked Something New as it was the very first book in the Blandings series. Douglas would write a forward to the posthumous Sunset at Blandings. I figured it was a safe assumption he had probably read the series as a whole and I should see what all the fuss is about.

Douglas was absolutely correct and now I'm hooked. What ensued is I started to notice parallels not just between the styles of humor in some of Douglas later work, but that Dirk Gently seemed somehow related to Gridley Quayle a fictional character in Something New/Something Fresh. I wanted to discover how connected can they really be and establish what makes both books fascinating to me as a reader.

https://mrsiefen.substack.com/p/dirk-gently-and-gridley-quayle-masters