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One is never alone with a rubber duck : Douglas Adams's absurd fictional universe /
What do existential elevators, sentient mattresses, paranoid androids, humans and other aliens have in common? For one thing, they want answers. The fact (yes fact) that there are no answers (except, perhaps, for "42") causes some humans (and other aliens) to face this empty madness we cal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle :
Cambridge Scholars,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What do existential elevators, sentient mattresses, paranoid androids, humans and other aliens have in common? For one thing, they want answers. The fact (yes fact) that there are no answers (except, perhaps, for "42") causes some humans (and other aliens) to face this empty madness we call life with Sisyphus-like defiance. Others choose to sulk or skulk or annihilate themselves. Another thing these creatures have in common is that they are all born mad, "and some remain so". One is ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 97 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443824385 1443824380 1282776827 9781282776821 9786612776823 661277682X |