Changes: Paul Neil Milne Johnstone

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“We have normality, I repeat we have normality.”
This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the Hitchhiker's universe.

If you were looking for the in-universe poet, go to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.

Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952–2004) was a real poet who lived in Redbridge, Essex. Johnstone had attended Brentwood School with Douglas Adams and the two jointly received a prize for English. There Johnstone edited a broadsheet, "the Artsphere Magazine," that included mock reviews by Adams as well as Johnstone's own poetry. Johnstone won an exhibition to study at the University of Cambridge (as did Adams).

His name was used by Adams as the author of the worst poetry in the universe in the original radio broadcast, though this was changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings for all subsequent versions of Hitchhiker's.

Johnstone went on to achieve moderate prominence in the poetry world as an editor and festival organiser, including the 1977 Cambridge Poetry Festival.

He died of pancreatic failure, almost three years after Douglas Adams' death, in 2004.

Notes and references

Paul Neil Milne Johnstone's biography at anacademic.com

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-'''Paul''' was a real person, who wrote some appalling poetry. In fact, his poetry is still considered to be the worst in the Galaxy, closely followed by that of the [[Azgoths of Kria]] and the [[Vogons]].
+:''If you were looking for the in-universe poet, go to [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]].''
+[[File:Paula_Nancy_Millstone_Jennings.jpg|thumb|160px|Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, the in-universe version.]]'''Paul Neil Milne Johnstone''' (1952–2004) was a real poet who lived in Redbridge, Essex. Johnstone had attended Brentwood School with [[Douglas Adams]] and the two jointly received a prize for English. There Johnstone edited a broadsheet, "the Artsphere Magazine," that included mock reviews by Adams as well as Johnstone's own poetry. Johnstone won an exhibition to study at the University of Cambridge (as did Adams).
-In later mentions of his poetry, the attributed name was changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, although it is not clear whether this change was due to a successful sex-change surgery, a non-traditional marriage, a mid-life mutation, or perhaps Paul/Paula was actually of a non-Earth race that mutates randomly as necessity requires, such as evolving into something with longer arms when the sugar is out of reach (but which may have become a species that does not take well to tea).
+His name was used by Adams as the author of the worst poetry in the universe in the original radio broadcast, though this was changed to [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]] for all subsequent versions of Hitchhiker's.
-The author died of pancreatic failure, almost three years after [[Douglas Adams|Adams']] death, in 2004. It is presumed that poetry was not a factor, although that remains a possibility.
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+Johnstone went on to achieve moderate prominence in the poetry world as an editor and festival organiser, including the 1977 Cambridge Poetry Festival.
+He died of pancreatic failure, almost three years after [[Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams']] death, in 2004.
+== Notes and references ==
+* [http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/163180 Paul Neil Milne Johnstone's biography at anacademic.com]
+[[Category:Real world people]]