Talk:Book:Men at Arms/Annotations

Detritus as advanced mathematician

The elegant theory has been advanced that Detritus' mega-equation etched in ice on the wall of the Pork Futures Warehouse is in fact a very well-concealed shout-out to Douglas Adams' h2g2. When he gets locked in the Pork Futures Warehouse, Detritus creates a huge, elaborate "theory of everything" equation all over the walls, in an attempt to pass the time until he is rescued. He gets everything down to one last "=" before being rescued. It is suspected that the answer on the other side of that equals will be 42. The Discworld Universe has the Question, and the h2g2 universe has the Answer. Unfortunately, because this universe has seen the answer, we'll never find out the details of Detritus' question, as the Question and the Answer may not co-exist in the same universe: the pre-existing Universe will wink out of existence and something even weirder will take its place. Not saying this is true and as it isn't my idea I can't take the credit and bung it on the Annotations page. But this sort of skewed thinking is worth a mention! AgProv (talk) 23:09, 14 January 2017 (UTC)