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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
The horse didn’t need scuba gear gmw - Reg took it and the Monk back to the planet they came from, which was the place he went to get the pinkish dust to cover his Greek suntan. And that planet was presumably the same one as the one from which the ghost had come originally, given that he had had an Electric Monk With him. Unless of course more than one had invented the Monks also.
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Yes, I think that the separate planet interpretation must be the correct one.
In my search for links between the two halves of the story I seemed to have made up one that didn't exist. When the ghost said: "So instead of checking it myself, you see, I sent out one of the Electric Monks." I thought: Ah, so that's where our monk came from (and probably why he was faulty and so on). After all, there was no reason to assume there wasn't some point in time that some place on Earth might not have a valley with pink dust.
Edited to Add: There was a second reason to think that the monk (or someone) was around to see what happened 4-billion-years ago, the opening sentence reads "This time there would be no witnesses." suggesting that there was a last time, and that last time there was a witness. I've had considerable difficulty trying to make that sentence fit in, and the Electric Monk being "sent out" seemed like a possibility.