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Zaphod left the controls for Ford to figure out, and lurched over to Arthur.Look, Earthman, he said angrily, you've got a job to do, right? The Question to the Ultimate Answer, right?What, that thing? said Arthur, I thought we'd forgotten about that.Not me, baby. Like the mice said, it's worth a lot of money in the right quarters. And it's all locked up in that head thing of yours.Yes but ...But nothing! Think about it. The Meaning of Life! We get our fingers on that we can hold every shrink in the Galaxy up to ransom, and that's worth a bundle. I owe mine a mint.Arthur took a deep breath without much enthusiasm.Alright, he said, but where do we start? How should I know? They say the Ultimate Answer or whatever is Forty-two, how am I supposed to know what the question is? It could be anything. I mean, what's six times seven?Zaphod looked at him hard for a moment. Then his eyes blazed with excitement.Forty-two! he cried.Arthur wiped his palm across his forehead.Yes, he said patiently, I know that.Zaphod's faces fell.I'm just saying that the question could be anything at all, said Arthur, and I don't see how I am meant to know.
Zaphod left the controls for Ford to figure out, and lurched over to Arthur.Look, Earthman, he said angrily, you've got a job to do, right? The Question to the Ultimate Answer, right?What, that thing? said Arthur, I thought we'd forgotten about that.Not me, baby. Like the mice said, it's worth a lot of money in the right quarters. And it's all locked up in that head thing of yours.Yes but ...But nothing! Think about it. The Meaning of Life! We get our fingers on that we can hold every shrink in the Galaxy up to ransom, and that's worth a bundle. I owe mine a mint.Arthur took a deep breath without much enthusiasm.Alright, he said, but where do we start? How should I know? They say the Ultimate Answer or whatever is Forty-two, how am I supposed to know what the question is? It could be anything. I mean, what's six times seven?Zaphod looked at him hard for a moment. Then his eyes blazed with excitement.Forty-two! he cried.Arthur wiped his palm across his forehead.Yes, he said patiently, I know that.Zaphod's faces fell.I'm just saying that the question could be anything at all, said Arthur, and I don't see how I am meant to know.
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About Douglas Adams
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.