#DIRK GENTLY HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY TV#
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987).Along the way Dirk stumbles onto a highly improbable horse in a bathroom, discovers who really composed all of Bach's music, and fails to find Schrödinger's elusive cat. However, when his papers turned out to be exactly the same as the real ones, to the very comma, he was expelled from the university and later sent to prison.ĭirk goes on to solve a highly elaborate time travel murder mystery, and accidentally answers the age-old question of exactly who interrupted Samuel Taylor Coleridge while he was writing the poem Kubla Khan. His fellow undergraduates were convinced that he was psychic and had produced the papers under hypnosis, while he claimed he had simply studied previous papers and determined potential patterns in questions. Cedd's College) he attempted to acquire money by selling exam papers for the upcoming tests. As a student at Cambridge University (St. The "depressing" part is that he is seemingly unable to use this knack to win money gambling on horse racing.
As Dirk describes it, it is impossible that the girl is getting those figures out of thin air, but the alternative implausible explanation is that the girl is masterminding a complex scheme with no obvious benefit to herself the first idea suggests that something is happening that nobody knows about, but the second suggests a scenario contrary to typical human behavior that is known about.ĭirk is psychic, though he refuses to believe in such things, insisting that he merely has a "depressingly accurate knack for making wild assumptions". As an investigator whose cases often take a paranormal twist, he challenges the notion that – as presented by Sherlock Holmes – "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", citing as an example an incident where a young girl is somehow reciting the stock market prices exactly as they change but twenty-four hours earlier. His office is supposed to be located at 33a Peckender St. Challenged on this point in the first novel, he claims that he cannot be considered to have ripped anybody off, because none of his clients have ever paid him. This involves running up large expense accounts and then claiming that every item (such as needing to go to a tropical beach in the Bahamas for three weeks) was, as a consequence of this "fundamental interconnectedness", actually a vital part of the investigation. Dirk bills himself as a " holistic detective" who makes use of "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" to solve the whole crime, and find the whole person.
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