Readers are surprised that Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts) ends in the prophecy that promised immortality being ironically fulfilled followed by everyone dying.

Readers are surprised that Moby Dick is a comedy.

@HastingsGreer The best possible outcome is that there are dozens of movie adaptations of hhgttg in the 2100s and they’re all brooding, serious meditations on the banal evil of bureaucracy

Love this bit of AI generated Market Context: "There are no recent real-world news developments or factual events involving this character that would alter his status as a established figure in literary and pop culture history."

It's an interesting book, mostly about 1800's eccentric superstitious sailors.

Arthur was definitely more of an Ishmael, plot does kind of move along without him but without him there it wouldn't be interesting