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From: jgunn@diku.dk (Jacob Gunness)
Subject: Re: Getting past Marvin in HHGTTG...
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.100336.981@odin.diku.dk>
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 10:03:36 GMT
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NIELS95@medcor.mcgill.ca (Nielsen Torsten Owen) writes:

>I am new to the net, and I hold high hopes that someone out there in
>cyberspace can help me get past a block I've been stuck at since 1987!

>In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, how do you get Marvin the paranoid
>android's door to let you into his room?  It demands that you show it one
>small scrap of intelligence... which I presume has to do with the sequence
>where you visit your own brain and see this big black speck in amongst all
>the synapses, but I can never get it out, without getting kicked out of my
>own brain, or having my head explode.

>Thanks for your help,  Torsten Nielsen.

 Hi! (Torsten, are you Danish, too?)

SPOILER BELOW


  No need to be stuck any longer!
The way to show some _real_ intelligence is to carry 'tea' and 'no tea' at
the same time - now that's intelligent!
The 'no tea' is yours right from the beginning. You should, at some point,
find a cartridge or some other sort of mechanical device,which can be 
insert into  the tea-making machine in order for it to produce some _real_
tea. BUT (the way I remember it) for you to carry both tea and no tea,
you must have lost your common sense - which you should be able to grab
without any problems (that black spec). If this doesn't work, please
specify what you have done earlier!

  - Jacob Gunness
