He rips it up - though as anyone with a mortgage or a student loan knows, that's not actually a legally binding way to null a contract. At the conclusion of the book Thor confronts his father with the Draycott's soul contract.

(The Draycotts even state that they could have taken over the world but weren't greedy.

How did a lawyer and an ad agent know how to monetize omnipotence when Odin didn't? Either Odin's powers were irrelevant to a modern world, hence his homelessness, or he had the powers of a god and was therefore a bit of an idiot in not knowing how to obviously monetize them. Presumably the Draycotts did know how to monetize a god's soul, but how? How does owning Odin's soul make them rich?ġb. It is further explained by the Draycotts that Odin was living as a homeless man before he met them because he didn't know how to monetize his godhood.ġa. It's revealed that Odin sold his soul to the Draycotts in exchange for perpetually fresh linens at Woodshead. So I'm assuming it's just subtle enough that I missed it.ġ. Maybe this subreddit could help me? I mean, Douglas Adams was a pretty clever man and obviously had an editor - I can't imagine they'd have released a book with no ending. I managed to find an excellent summary of all the problems with the ending ( ), but nobody had answered any of them. And again.įinally I went online for help. I assumed I'd missed a chapter and listened to the end of the book again.

When I got to the ending, though, I was blindsided. Absolutely loved it (I think it might secretly be one of Adams' best works), and it was a treat hearing Adams himself read his own prose. I hadn't read LDTTOTS in decades and burned through it again this past weekend, this time as an audiobook read by the author.

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