Remembering DNA (Douglas Noel Adams) 20 Years Later?

Douglas Noel Adams 
(11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001)

The ABC Science Show,
 August 2021

Del Rey and the 11th of May Syncs

My favourite DNA book was his last one

I woke up on the morning of September 11, 2021 from a deep sleep with my iPad next to me still playing podcasts from the night before, and for a split second I had no idea of who I was or where I was, until it all came flooding back as I looked around the room I had found myself in ... my own bedroom.

Great Lives Podcast:
Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams

As I looked up, I saw my signed 2001 movie poster and realized that it was September 11th, 2021 and the 20th anniversary of that terrible event from 20 years ago.

I also remembered that Monday was the 5-year anniversary of my father's death, which was pretty much on the 700th anniversary of Dante's death.

And it was podcasts about Dante and his 'The Divine Comedy' I had fallen asleep to as they played one by one as I slept through the night, and God only knows where my consciousness was until morning:-)

9/11 Screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Douglas Adams favourite movie?

My current bedroom

'The Divine Comedy'?-)

The Trout of Doubt?-)

As my eyes and brain started piecing my current life back together, I saw the fish hanging on my wall and it also struck me that Douglas Adams had been dead for 20 years this year, having passed away in 2001 from a heart-attack and ironically in the year that his favourite movie was meant to take place in.

Douglas talks about the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey' in this 1994 BBC 'Desert Island Discs' radio show below.

Sue Lawley's castaway is
writer Douglas Adams

Some of the songs Adams picked for the show

I wrote about my 'Trout of Doubt' painting and me reading DNA's book 'The Salmon of Doubt' in this old 2013 post -

Woman with fish on head?

Episode 42 -
A Tribute to Douglas Adams

As much as I have written about Douglas Adams on this blog, I have not read his famous Hitch-hiker novel, as it's not something I think I would want to read after watching the movie.

I was only intrigued as to why Adams was such a cultural hit with his radio show/TV series/movie with nerd culture, and why a guy who seemed to have a spiritual bent said he was an atheist.

Maybe if Adams could have seen his life and death in hindsight (as I'm sure he eventually did:-) he would have realized that there was something more behind the scenes than he ever perceived in his DNA body?