The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases archaic term for a section of a poem revived by Lewis Carroll for "The Hunting of the Snark"). The original series comprised Fit the First to Fit the Sixth. Fits the Fifth and Sixth were co-written by John Lloyd; subsequent versions of the story omit most of Lloyd's material. The success of the series encouraged Adams to adapt it into a novel, which was based on the first four Fits and released in the second week of October 1979. A slightly contracted double LP re-recording of the first four Fits was released in the same year, followed by a single
The Poem of the End of the End (with "The" in the title) is a major poem by the White Russian symbolist poet Marina Tsvetaeva. Written in Prague in 1924, the poem details the end of a passionate affair with Konstantin Boeslavovich Rozdevitch, a former military officer. Each of the sections deals with the crossing of a bridge and the symbolism is echoed relentlessly throughout the poem; the mood is unremittingly tense and foreboding. (from the Elaine Feinstein translation). The Poem of the End The Poem of the End (, 'poema kontsa') is the name of two poems by Russian poets of the early 20th