Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 3, Card 22 - MARVINPEPE by
@djangobits. This is a 1/42 card with a current floor price of 1.88 BTC ($138,782 USD).
31 wallets hold a copy of this card with the largest holder controlling 14.28% of the total supply (6/42).
This card is a mashup of a character, book and movie. It features the character Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book and movie of the same name, but with his head replaced by Pepe. This is where the card title comes from as well, having been changed to "Pepe, the Paranoid Frogbot."
Behind Marvin is the Primary Control Console from the spaceship "Heart of Gold" from the movie.
The text below the title "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed" is a direct line spoken by Marvin in the book/movie.
The main text on the card is a poem entitled "Marvin's lullaby (How I Hate the Night)" which appeared in Doglas Adams' book Life, the Universe and Everything (the third novel in the Hitchhiker series).
The Full Lullaby (as written in the book)
“Now the world has gone to bed,” Marvin droned, “Darkness won't engulf my head,
“I can see by infra-red,
“How I hate the night.”
He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse.
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
“Try to count electric sheep,
“Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
“How I hate the night.”
The mint number of the card (42) refers to the supercomputer Deep Thought's statement, “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything… is 42.”
The font used on the card appears to be hand-made.
Further reading/viewing:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hi…
Douglas Adams (author) -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougla…
Book review by The Guardian -
theguardian.com/childrens-bo…
Best of Marvin (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) -
youtu.be/Eh-W8QDVA9s
Movie Trailer -
youtu.be/pmyNitDhMd8
IMDB -
imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 Feb. 1985) -
youtu.be/SF2fZ2iOXhk
The unlikely origins of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | BBC Global -
youtu.be/9vDP28g97mc
Douglas Adams: His Life, the Universe, and Everything -
youtu.be/Qw4h_NG2h2A