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Hello everyone. I've never actually posted before on here which is why you're probably wondering who the heck I am. Anyway, I just finished WoLP last night (thanks to the magic of amazon.co.uk - no waiting until March). At the end in the advertisement section the ad for the Footnoterphone shows an ISBN number. Since I'm a total geek I looked it up and it turned out to be an edition of Gulliver's Travels! Ok, I thought it was exciting, the whole connection to TN-2 and everything - but then again I am a geek, so those things do excite me :o)
That's it - I'll be going back to being a lurker for a while.
It's the Penguin Classics edition of Gulliver's Travels. I guess he chose that one since they're the US distributor of his books (at least the editions I have).
It's the grand Academy of Lagado in Laputa - the one where all the professors are obsessed with their most, um, remarkable inventions which one day really will revolutionise Life As We Know It/replace whatever commonplace thing happens to be used atm - though I think the Footerphone may even be a bit too practical for them. I mean, it actually works!
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Just to show how UNobservant I am, I only realised last night, after three readings of TEA, one of LIAGB and now reading WOLP, that there is no chapter 13. Durrr, Frederick!
I was looking up answers to the quiz using TEA and wanted to check chapter 13 thinking the answer to the question might be there. I went to the relevant page only to discover there was nothing there!
... And I live above a bookstore with an ISBN computer. And I didn't look for that. I feel rather stupid -- but, Pam, welcome to the Fforum and that's a fab idea!
It would however be interesting to know more about the hidden meanings in the chapter 13 headings in the Contents in all three books. I don't have the books here at office, but as I remember two of the headings were about churches (or maybe not).
/Mattias
(Absolutely no connection to Mathias, the horse)