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[kiya]

I was trying to track down the origin of one of my phrases ("True, but probably unimportant") and the process of doing so brought me to thastygliax's LARP resume. I am highly amused. (The line, by the way, is apparently from Hitchhiker's somewhere.) (As distinct from the true, false, and meaningless sequence, which is of course Sri Syadasti and from the Principia.)

I spent a lot of time last night borrowing the use of oneironaut's brain to get a surname for a character who will be introduced by surname, and then had the character not show up in that chapter after all. Perverse things, characters. But at least I know the name now.

Having a harder time with this chapter than I did with the previous one. Very aggravating. I swear I've deleted more than I've got left. Meh. Ah well; it'll either unsnarl or I'll realise I'm doing it wrong and start over.

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[djm4]

"True, but probably unimportant"

Doesn't one of the mice say it? Damn, that's going to bother me all day now. IIRC (and I probably don't), it's from the radio series...

Wait a moment. Fit the Seventh! Gag Halfrunt! I think he says when being interviewed about Zaphod Beeblebrox"

"True, but probably unimportant"
"Why"
"Well, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?"

Anyone got the scripts or recordings to hand and can check? ;-)

[kiya]

Gag Halfrunt was what I got off Googling. Unfortunately, my copy of the scripts is Around Here Somewhere.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

It's definitely Gag Halfrunt being asked whether Zaphod is dead. djm4 is correct about where: first episode of the second series.

When I was in high school, I had all six hours of the two series taped off the radio, and I listened to them enough that I'm pretty sure I could have recited all six hours from memory. I can't do that anymore, but I still remember some stuff.

What the heck

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

"We asked his private brain care specialist, Gag Halfrunt, if this was just a publicity stunt."
"Well, Zaphod's just this guy, you know?"
"Is it true that Zaphod Beeblebrox has been eaten by a Hagunennon?"
"He's an impetuous fellow, you know."
"So you would agree that Zaphod Beeblebrox is finally dead."
"True, but probably unimportant!"
"And why is that?"
"Well, Zaphod's just this guy, you know?"

I'm a little fuzzy on that third line, but the rest should be close.