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On Jan 2, 11:16*am, tom wrote:
Lostgallifreyan wrote: Actually it comes out during the TV play and at least one of the books that it's "what is 9 times 6?" Adams denied what many here should quickly figure out. tom K0TAR I never saw that one.. Read the books, but I don't remember that, at least not with much meaning. Maybe just to indicate human capacity for coming up with wrong answers from wrong questions? I doubt he ever spelled out what the real roots were. A good magician doesn't deliberately and publicly spoil the illusion (or in his case, allusion, perhaps). The one thing I'm fairly sure of is thet the references were cultural, colloquial, and that's why so many people got it. Without that it might have just been another impenetratable space opera with humour thrown in. Ok, a hint. *9 times 6 IS 42. tom K0TAR it wasn't when i went to school. but 7*6 was |
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