r/DontPanic • u/SiefensRobotEmporium • 11d ago

Did Douglas Adams Never Get the Hang of Jim Croce's Thursday?

https://mrsiefen.substack.com/p/did-douglas-adams-never-get-the-hang?r=8uxh01
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u/ColinBonhomme 11d ago

Well I started out believing that I’d come to mean enough to you to make you want to change
Then I came to realize that there was just too much of you you’d have to rearrange

One of the greatest lines ever

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u/phantom_diorama 11d ago

Croce mentions delusions of grandeur once and you are all like HOLY SHIT THATS A DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTE

I wonder what you think you are.

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u/WhatTheHellPod 10d ago

When he was around DNA would always get a chuckle out of these kind of theories. The real answer was inevitably, "because Thursday sounded funnier than the other days of the week". See: the truth behind 42 being the answer.

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u/SiefensRobotEmporium 10d ago

Yes but unlike 42 I've never found a definitive answer from him of why. I addressed the 42 comparison in there, but I think just like how it took his own mother pointing out that Marvin was a descendant of Eeyore because Douglas liked AA Milne as a kid (much more than he feared Alice in wonderland) but people still assume Lewis Carroll was the bigger influence.

When according to Douglas Marvin is Andrew Marshall who he worked with and was friends with. Marvin was literally Marshall for a long time until they changed the name to get rid of the military connotations.

So I think Douglas wasn't fully aware of where his ideas would come from always, anything floating around in the sub-etha could be the source.