Douglas Adams’s introduction to the radio scripts book gives an impression of this time, a period that he described as “six months of baths and peanut-butter sandwiches”. Six months spent at his mother’s house in Dorset filling waste-paper baskets with sheets of half-typed paper, of relentless self-editing, of depression. He would leave notes around for himself to find with messages such as: If you ever get the chance to do a proper, regular job… take it. This is not an occupation for a healthy, growing lad. and underneath those notes, other notes, reminding him: This is not written after a
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