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yeah exactly Zaphod Send a noteboard - 01/12/2010 03:38:16 AM
if she just said 'open this letter in 5 days' she'd be betraying the shadow, because she still thought it might be possible she'd be alive then. So she had to say 'open it only if I don't come back', because she knew/convinced herself the only way she wouldn't come back is if she was dead. Then she had to say 'in 30 days' because she had to set a reasonable time (even though she says in the letter she'd be back in a day if she was alive).

I think the '30 days' and 'do what it says' parts are meant to indicate that she was trying to arouse his curiousity so he'd for sure open it. But really, she could have just said 'if I don't come back in 5 days, open this letter and read it', without betraying the shadow.

So yeah, it seems stupid.
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It changes it by ensuring he doesn't open the letter before she returns - 30/11/2010 10:31:49 PM 734 Views
yeah exactly - 01/12/2010 03:38:16 AM 967 Views
Re: yeah exactly - 01/12/2010 09:58:25 AM 715 Views
Think of the results - 01/12/2010 10:55:21 AM 758 Views
ok, good thinking, it might make sense after all *NM* - 01/12/2010 10:59:30 AM 282 Views
cause she truley believed that he wouldn't open it. - 01/12/2010 07:26:34 PM 666 Views
I think the attack was supposed to happen within 30 days - 01/12/2010 10:52:47 PM 661 Views

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