"How long did the Monk believe these things?
Well, as far as the Monk was concerned, forever. The faith which moves
mountains, or at least believes them against all the
available evidence to be pink, was a solid and
abiding faith, a great rock against which the world could hurl whatever it
would, yet it would not be shaken. In practice, the
horseknew, twenty-four hours was usually about its lot.So what of this horse, then, that actually held opinions,and was
skeptical about things? Unusual behavior for a horse,wasn’t it? An
unusual horse perhaps?No. Although it was certainly a handsome and
well-builtexample of its species, it was none the
less a perfectlyordinary horse, such as
convergent evolution has produced inmany of the places that life is to be
found. They have alwaysunderstood a great deal more than
they let on. It is difficultto be sat on all day, every
day, by some other creature,without forming an
opinion about them.On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to
sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not
have theslightest thought about them whatsoever." – from
Dirk
Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
