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I suspect this question's answer was more just an opportunity to write what he did for comedic effect, as opposed to any actual impossibility of answering the q
by fortyseven 5y ago
I suspect this question's answer was more just an opportunity to write what he did for comedic effect, as opposed to any actual impossibility of answering the question being asked.
I mean, his entire writing career was dedicated to inventing details about people who don't actually exist. That's writing.
- jimbokun 5y agoThe answer is about the story writing process, which is more interesting than philosophizing about the model of Dent’s Mac, which is why I think he chose to answer that way.
- Veen 5y agoHe created the world to tell the story; he didn't tell the story to create the world. The story is primary, and if a detail is irrelevant to the story, why invent it? Some writers do it the other way around: they invent a world and then make up stories that happen in it, but I don't think Adams approached writing in that way.