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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul	comment	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is Douglas Adams's 1988 sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It deals with multiple dimensions, Norse Gods, murder, record company contracts, and an incredibly dirty refrigerator.It can be seen as a comedy/mystery/science fiction.It was adapted into a radio serial for BBC 4 in 2008. The radio series takes a few liberties, but stays mainly close to the source material and clears up a few of the more confusing plot points.Followed by The Salmon of Doubt (unfinished).
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_15827a31	type	Morphic Resonance
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_15827a31	comment	Morphic Resonance: At one point, it's mentioned that the eagle has a circular area of darker feathers on each wing. It's later revealed to be a transmogrified RAF fighter jet; RAF aircraft have a circular RAF emblem on each wing.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_166258c3	type	Character Overlap
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_166258c3	comment	Character Overlap: Thor had already appeared in two of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe and Everything.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Long Dark Tea-Time centers around this. The kicker: the devil is trying to help Odin get out of an even nastier advertising deal.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_2bffe89	type	Listing the Forms of Degenerates
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_2bffe89	comment	Listing the Forms of Degenerates: See Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_2d30ecda	type	Strangely Specific Horoscope
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_2d30ecda	comment	Strangely Specific Horoscope: The horoscope writer for the local paper knew Dirk at university, and aims his horoscopes specifically at Dirk. Since he strongly dislikes him, this resulted in the newspaper losing 1/12 of its readership.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Dirk regards his cleaning lady Elena as this when it comes to his refrigerator; each keeps trying to trick the other into opening it. At one point, Dirk buys some food that needs to be refrigerated and leaves it on the kitchen counter, hoping Elena will take the hint and open the fridge. When he comes home at the end of the day, he finds that she's instead thrown the food away.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Also, everyone and their dog keeps asking Dirk if he knows his nose is broken.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3b4185fb	comment	Stalker Without A Crush: Dirk explains that he will pick a random car that seems to know where it's going to follow if he gets lost while he's driving, a process he refers to as 'Zen Navigation'. He finds that while he seldom gets where he intended, he always ends up where he needed to be, or at least someplace interesting.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3f961b7b	type	Spice Rack Panacea
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3f961b7b	comment	Spice Rack Panacea: Thor refuses to let Kate use disinfectant on his wound after the eagle attacks him, since he prefers natural remedies. So instead she draws a bath for him to wash with and adds all the herbal hand creams, conditioners and so on that she's been impulse-buying over the years.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The ending of the book, while appropriate, neatly finishes all the plot threads in about five pages. Also slightly subverted: In the process of solving all the plot problems, the Deus Ex Machina also puts a massive hole in Dirk's house. In The Salmon of Doubt, it's still a problem.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4a4fe031	type	Really Fond of Sleeping
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4a4fe031	comment	Really Fond of Sleeping: Odin really likes sleeping in the old folks home he's in. When he's not sleeping he's thinking about sleeping, or his bed, or fresh linens.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: The Norse Gods have not been doing well since the world decided it didn't need them.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: One of the most contrived explanations for a "suicide" that has ever been committed to print. Admittedly this was to satisfy the police, who were pointedly not interested in the idea that the victim had been killed by a goblin as part of a demonic contract. It's a case of Take Our Word for It, as it's never explained in detail to the reader, but it involves a lot of Noodle Implements.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_55d79c60	type	Magical Homeless Person
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_55d79c60	comment	Magical Homeless Person: The poor people who congregate at King's Cross Station are all but stated to be ancient Norse gods, living on the margins of a world that no longer has any need for them.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Odin arranges for this to befall Thor in order to prevent Thor from interfering with Odin's plans. Thor finally gets a handle on it once he's able to blow off some steam.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Dirk's favorite way of getting places he shouldn't be.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_65bdfe8f	type	Hot Potato
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_65bdfe8f	comment	Hot Potato: Is the title of "Pugilism"'s new hit, which has a prophetic significance. Toe Rag gives the Draycotts a bill for his time, which apparently stipulates that they will die at the end of a set period of time. The bill gets passed from one client to another, and Geoff Anstey loses his head when time runs out.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_668a5371	type	Necktie Leash
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_668a5371	comment	Necktie Leash: Kate uses this one on Dirk, who subverts a repeated use by taking off his tie and handing it to her.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_6a993504	type	Audio Adaptation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_6a993504	comment	Audio Adaptation: Harry Enfield returns to voice Dirk in another radio series written and directed by Dirk Maggs.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Thor suspects Toe Rag of having some kind of evil hold over Odin. Toe Rag replies that he is a loyal servant of Odin who does exactly what he's ordered to. The narrator notes that Thor isn't sufficiently proficient in human (or divine or goblin) nature to realise that this is a pretty powerful hold to have over anyone.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_7451e686	type	It Came from the Fridge
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_7451e686	comment	It Came from the Fridge: Dirk and his cleaning lady have a long-running feud over his refrigerator, which has become so filthy inside that each one keeps trying to get the other to open it. He eventually has to call a fence to take his fridge away and replace it with a brand new, stolen one, which he vows never to use. The old one has a god of Guilt burst from it to resolve the plot, in a Deus ex Machina.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: The Dirk Gently books embody this trope really because they are all about the interconnectedness of everything. Chekov's Armoury isn't just a device Adams used, it's what he based the whole book on. Norse Gods and a somewhat popular song are involved in the apparent suicide by beheading of some dude. Also, Dirk's non-working fridge? That has something to do with it as well: By way of providing a very literal Deus ex Machina.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the context of a Listing the Forms of Degenerates line about King's Cross Station.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_8518ffd3	type	Laser-Guided Broadcast
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_8518ffd3	comment	Laser-Guided Broadcast: The horoscope writer on the local paper is an old friend of Dirk's who targets his horoscopes specifically at him, with very specific comments such as "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of."
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Whatever Dirk claims to believe in order to extract cash from gullible people invariably turns out to really be true, but always in such a way that he looks bad, sometimes in such a way that he suffers physical or emotional trauma, and never in such a way that he gets the money. The Draycotts, who had passed Toe Rag's bill demanding their lives on to their clients, do in fact die when a fighter jet that had once been an eagle crashes into their car.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_9dd84122	type	Occult Detective
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_9dd84122	comment	Occult Detective: Not exclusively, but Gently is definitely this when he has to be.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: Kate, shortly before awakening from a coma in a hospital, has a dream in which her mind is represented by an infinite collection of cabin trunks, of which ten percent contain past memories, and the remaining ninety percent contain penguins. She assumes this trope is in effect.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_aab6471d	type	Not-So-Phony Psychic
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_aab6471d	comment	Not-So-Phony Psychic: Dirk's attempt to make some easy money as a gypsy fortune teller (in drag) goes wrong when the random mystical nonsense he spouts turns out to be uncomfortably accurate.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Thor finds himself in a particularly humiliating one after being removed from the hospital: stripped naked, lying on his back, and glued to the floor. At first he reads into it, interpreting it to mean "stick to the ground." Once he confronts Toe Rag, he finds out it was just the first thing that came to Odin's mind.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_ae945566	type	Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_ae945566	comment	Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: A girl in a sanitarium spends all day reciting letters and numbers. Her doctors have figured out that she's accurately reciting the New York Stock Exchange daily trades in chronological order. However, she does it 24 hours after it happens, so the doctors there think it's useless — unlike if she were doing it 24 hours in advance. Thus, they don't really care why she's doing it. They even suspect that she's really faking it by somehow getting her hands on the numbers and memorizing them to repeat the next day.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Dirk gets frustrated that Anstey's son won't acknowledge his presence. He unplugs the telly that's got the boy captivated, which gets his nose broken in retaliation. When he returns from tending his injury, the boy has lost interest because the news is on and is ready to talk, only for Dirk to get distracted by Janice's photo on the news report and tell the teenager to shut up: he's trying to watch this.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: "Pugilism and the Third Autistic Cuckoo".
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Thor transforms objects and people around him by accident when he's angry, thus setting off the events of the novel. His many unfortunate victims include a lamp, an airline ticket clerk, and a fighter jet.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_be6b0200	type	Sexophone
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_be6b0200	comment	Sexophone: Discussed. The narration refers to Kate's legs as being the sort which make sound-track editors feel a need to add a saxophone solo, "for reasons which no one besides sound-track editors has ever been able to understand." Then it adds that the saxophone would've been drowned out by the kazoo which the same editor would've been playing over Kate's car.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: A minor character is a writer named Howard Bell. It is stated that his writing is absolutely horrible, but he remains wildly popular and successful for two reasons: he deliberately cultivates an air of freakish mystery, and his name is perfect for a book cover because the first name is long and the last name is short. On his books, his first name is written in a medium-sized blocky font followed by his last name in a larger font, so that his name fills out the cover and upstages the title. Bell is probably a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Stephen King, but still, it's funny to see that character created by someone named Douglas Adams, whose name appears on the original cover in precisely this fashion.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Dirk has quite a shock when he peeks through the keyhole at the eagle and sees it looking back at him.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Draycotts buy Odin's power, then start selling bits of it to other buyers in order to cover the cost. Dirk's client is one of those buyers, and Toe Rag has him killed when he can't pay up.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_d435222d	type	Deity of Mortal Creation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_d435222d	comment	Deity of Mortal Creation: A new God spawns as a critical mass of guilt builds up throughout the book.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The elderly lady who witnesses Thor's battle with the eagle on Primrose Hill simply resumes walking her dog as soon as the combatants move out of the way.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_e39508ed	type	Impossibly Mundane Explanation
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_e39508ed	comment	Impossibly Mundane Explanation: When Dirk hears about a girl who repeatedly recites the previous day's stock quotes, he rejects the assumption that she's just memorizing them somehow (after all, the information is out there!) in favor of some more mystical explanation, because nobody would ever go to that much trouble. It's a little different since he's arguing on the basis of general human nature, not specific character, but the principle is the same. Dirk sums this up by reversing Sherlock Holmes' usual maxim: Eliminate the improbable (in this case, that this girl is masterminding an elaborate complex plot with no obvious benefit to herself), and whatever remains, however impossible (that she's getting the stock prices out of nothing through some unknown and unidentified source), must be the truth.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Dirk, who gets his nose broken and his body pummeled by an enraged boy, has his broken nose yanked straight by a nurse without anesthesia, is nearly run over by a bus and a cyclist and then actually run over by a motorcycle, rear-ends other vehicles twice after himself being run off the road, bangs his head on the steps, tears his coat jumping out a window, had his hand stabbed and his nose (again) slashed by a huge eagle, was attacked and nearly mauled by a second eagle, and gets whammed at least fifty-seven times by his own conscience. And that's not even mentioning the destruction of his house.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_fb3ac5b7	comment	Astrologer: The Great Zaganza is a newspaper astrologer who happens to be an old friend of Dirk's who knows his birthday. As a result, his predictions for Dirk's sign tend to be along the lines of, "Virtually everything you decide today will be wrong." Unsurprisingly, the paper's circulation has declined by nearly a twelfth since he took the job.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The policemen at the Anstey house taunt Dirk with warnings that "Big Bob the Finder" had been sent to haul him there — possibly in less-than-fit condition — if he hadn't shown up on his own. As Dirk is leaving, a large burly policeman who's welcomed by the name "Bob" arrives to deal with the Anstey boy upstairs ... and gets his arse kicked just as thoroughly as the first copper who'd tried to separate the teen from his telly. One of Kate's major complaints about London is its scarcity of pizza delivery services. At the end of the novel, while Dirk is laid up in the same hospital that she was in at the start, he is presented with a pizza that she ordered for delivery there before checking herself out.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_fe1d3a6b	comment	Kill the Lights: Thor uses his powers to completely black out Kate's entire neighborhood in order to get her attention, inadvertently terrifying her in the process.
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