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The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
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In the HGTTG is there a reference to the meaning of life being 42 or something like that?
Anyone know which chapter in the book this is in?
Anyone know which chapter in the book this is in?
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With regard to the why 42 bit, Lewis Carroll is the answer. There was a programme on Radio 4 some time ago looking at the work of the producer of the original radio series of Hitchhiker. He said, when talking about Hitchhiker, that he'd suggested 42 because the humour in Hitchhiker and Carroll's works was similar. Carroll had a thing about the number 42, and it does crop up in a few of his works.