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Also by Douglas Adams in Pan Books
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe Life, the Universe and Everything So Long, and Thanks For All the
Fish The Original Hitch Hiker Radio Scripts
With John Lloyd The Meaning of Liff
Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


Pan Books in association with Heinemann
First pubished 1981 by Willian Heinemann Ltd This edition pubished 1988
by Pan Books Ltd, Cavaye Piace, London SW10 9PG in assocation with
Heinemann 9 8
Copyеght (C) Douglas Adams 1987 ISBN 0 330 30162 4

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
This booik is sold to subject to the condition that it shall not, by
way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold , hired out or otherwise
circulated without the pubisher's prior consent in any form of binding or
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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, dead,
or wandering the night in ghostly torment.
This book was written and typeset on an Apple Macintosh Plus computer
and LaserWriter Plus printer using MacAuthor wordprocessing software.
The completed document was then printed using a Linotron 100 at The
Graphics Factory, London SW3, to produce a final high-resolution image of
the text. My thanks to Mike Glover of Icon Technology for his help with
this process.
Finally, my very special thanks are due to Sue Freestone for all her
help in nursing this book into existence.
Chapter One...