能看到新的 DNA 的文字，我想我应该激动爆了。这本里很多 DNA 语言。比如开头：
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways – with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, Wait a second. That means there’s a situation vacant.
比如 Chirs 忽然发现自己要毕业了：
He had been a member of the younger generation, the generation that was going to change everything, for ever and completely.
…
For heaven’s sake, in a few months it was going to be the 1980s. The 1980s were clearly far in the future and they had no business turning up until he was ready.
说到 Cambridge：
Unlike the Academy on Gallifrey, this was a fresh, vibrant place of learning, the most ancient of the colleges a mere eight hundred years old.
说到纸币和 Coronation Street：
The Matriarch wore a crown, suggesting a type-B monarchy, which was presumably something to do with this important street where coronations were so regularly performed.
说到古怪的 college potter：
She loved it when he was out-eccentricked.
还有自行车（直接想到 Salmon of Doubt 里 DNA 来到中国后写的一篇文章）：
In fact, thought Chris, it was very hard to ring a bicycle bell angrily. However hard you tinged it, it sounded bright and cherry.
我超爱 DNA 的非常特别的 wit。
但是读这本书我激动不起来，最多莞尔一笑。多少是因为这本书本身节奏有点慢（大概是老 DW 剧本来就是很慢；然而 DNA 会把慢的地方填满wit。）？多少是因为我现在不太喜欢 Doctor Who 了？多少是因为追不上读书会节奏我现在读书总是在想是在完成任务（然而没有读书会我大概更不会读书了；还有潜意识里觉得要追上星战新 canon 的书也给我加上了压力。）？
我喜欢 DNA 和喜欢 DW 一直是分开的，发现它们有联系很惊喜，但是老是把它们扯在一起有点厌倦。对于两次拍 Dirk Gently 电视剧我也是抗拒的。我什么时候变得这么小心眼？
DNA 的 irrelevant wit，不想去太解构它。它是个宝藏。它大概是 In Praise of Idleness 里说的那种 mind state 的结果。