Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Author:Douglas Adams
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Mystery, Science Fiction, Adventure, Humour, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780434009190
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 1987-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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 “ THANK YOU, NO,” said Richard firmly, “much as I would love the opportunity to buy you a pizza and watch you eat it, Dirk, I want to go straight home. I have to see Susan. Is that possible, Reg? Just straight to my flat? I’ll come up to Cambridge next week and collect my car.”

“We are already there,” said Reg. “Simply step out of the door, and you are home in your own flat. It is early on Friday evening and the weekend lies before you.”

“Thanks. Er, look, Dirk, I’ll see you around, OK? Do I owe you something? I don’t know.”

Dirk waved the matter aside airily. “You will hear from my Miss Pearce in due course,” he said.

“Fine, OK, well, I’ll see you when I’ve had some rest. It’s been, well, unexpected.”

He walked to the door and opened it. Stepping outside he found himself halfway up his own staircase, in the wall of which the door had materialized.

He was about to start up the stairs when he turned again as a thought struck him. He stepped back in, closing the door behind him.

“Reg, could we make one tiny detour?” he said. “I think it would be a good move if I took Susan out for a meal tonight, only the place I have in mind you have to book in advance. Could you manage three weeks for me?”

“Nothing could be easier,” said Reg, and made a subtle adjustment to the disposition of the beads on the abacus. “There,” he said. “We have traveled backward in time three weeks. You know where the phone is.”

Richard hurried up the internal staircase to Reg’s bedroom and phoned L’Esprit d’Escalier. The maître d’ was charmed and delighted to take his reservation, and looked forward to seeing him in three weeks’ time. Richard went back downstairs shaking his head in wonder.

“I need a weekend of solid reality,” he said. “Who was that just going out of the door?”

“That,” said Dirk, “was your sofa being delivered. The man asked if we minded him opening the door so they could maneuver it round and I said we would be delighted.”

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