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  1. The first book printed on the Gutenburg (movable type) press was a bible with 42 lines on each page.

  2. The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy costs $42.

  3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy FAQ estimates the cost of dining at Milliway's as being $1.42 x 10248.

  4. There are 42 pen-like objects on pages 68 and 69 of the Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

  5. Stavro Mueller's club "Beta" happens to have a street address of 42 as stated by Ford Prefect in book 5 of the increasingly innaccurately named Hitchhiker Trilogy: "Mostly Harmless" -- "Just there, number forty-two," shouted Ford Prefect to the taxi-driver, "Right here!".

  6. In "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", when they retrieve Marvin in the parking of the restaurant, Marvin says Trillian he is there for a very long time: exactly 576000003579 years, which sum of the digits is ... 42.

  7. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet sleeps for 42 hours.

  8. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion to make it appear that she is dead, so she will not have to marry Count Paris. He promises the potion's effects will last for "two and forty", or 42 hours!

  9. In "Rama Revealed" by Arthur Clarke & Gentry Lee, way at the end when the purpose of the universe has (maybe) been explained to the main character, she muses to herself that it's not forty-two, obviously a nod to HHGTTG.

  10. The LaTeX book (1st edition) by Leslie Lamport makes a reference to 42 while discussing the use of references and labels. Its says:

  See page 42 for more details.
   ...
  ...
  Text on page 42:
  The meaning of life, the universe, and...

  1. In the book "James and the Giant Peach", the centipede has 42 legs.

  2. Joseph Heller's Novel "Catch-22" has 42 chapters.

  3. The Adventurer Magazine for Lucas Arts, Winter 94/95, Page #7 has a screen shot from Dark Forces, with a score of 42.

  4. Ad title from Dr Dobb's April 95, page 53 - "Productivity Headache #42, Lots of help file, not much help".

  5. There is a French magazine about cars, relationships and home improvement etc. The title of this magazine is "le 42".

  6. Lewis Carroll's 'magic number' was 42.

  7. Lewis Carroll began writing "The Hunting of the Snark" in 1874 when he was 42. The Baker (the major character in this "nonsense ballad") is introduced with:

  There was one who was famed for the number of things
  He forgot when he entered the ship:
  His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
  And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
  ...  
  He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
  With his name painted clearly on each:
  But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
  They were all left behind on the beach.
  1. In A.A. Milne's (The author of "Winnie-the-Pooh") collection of poetry, "Now_We_are_Six", in the poem "The Morning Walk", it says:
  When Anne and I go out a walk,
  We hold each other's hand and talk,
  Of all the things we mean to do
  when Anne and I are forty-two.

  1. Dr. Seuss wrote 42 Children's Books.

  2. In "The Two Towers", the second volume of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," at the beginning of Chapter 8 of book III, the count of Orks slain by Gimli the Dwarf at the battle of Helm's Deep: "Forty two!".

  3. In the book "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield lies and says that he is 42.

  4. In the book "Homer Price", by Robert McCloskey, the settlers sing a song about mushrooms, 42 pounds of edible fungus, in the wilderness a-growing.

  5. In the comic strip "Curtis," Curtis recently remarked that the "cat woman" who lived upstairs had 42 cats.

  6. A student-magazine of physics-students at the University of Oldenburg in Germany is called 'ZWEIUNDVIERZIG' which is German for forty-two.

  7. A binder for Donald Duck magazines is priced at NOK 42.

  8. A new species of fish was discovered in Fiordland, New Zealand and named Fiordichthys slartibartfasti. The paper was accepted for publication by Journal of Natural History on 11 March 1994 - Douglas Adams' 42nd birthday.

  9. According to an article in the March 23,1996 edition of the Houston Chronicle, there are 42 free-range prairie chickens left alive in the world.

  10. Another awesome book, Catch-22, has exactly 42 chapters.