A string-tied parcel beside a miniature antenna tower on a snowy mound.

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Chat, June 17, 1998

Douglas Adams

I get all my ideas from a mail order company in Indianapolis. Although I'm not prepared to give you their name.

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Our interpretation.

Adams describes ideas as goods obtained from a business, then withholds the detail that would make the explanation useful. The specific city gives the claim a practical shape while the missing company name keeps it inaccessible. An apparent disclosure therefore manages to reveal almost nothing another person could follow.

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