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« on: September 15, 2007, 01:14:43 am » |
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Okay, I've wanted to make this topic for a while, because I THINK I have a pretty cool interpretation of the famous Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". (Though Adams probably just came up with it off the top of his head... Arthur Dent also used first basic instinct to try and find the Question!) This'll probably just BE a HGTTG thread in the end, but hey!
My dad was actually the one who came up with this, and it seems to work pretty well with the idea that the answer needs an appropriate question. Every single time in the books, when they've attempted to find the Ultimate Question, they've come up with 7 x 6. The fact is that if you go a little deeper into that question, you'll find it works on a symbolic level. 7 is a holy number, being the number of days it took for God to create the earth, etc., while 6 is considered to be the Devil's number. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, you need to have Good and Evil together for it to even be in existence. In essence, it's an expression of the formula used to create everything, with 7 and 6 being variables representing Good and Evil.
... so, think up some other interpretation, discuss the book, or grab your towels!
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Re: 42
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2007, 09:43:29 am » |
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Heh... Good thing I just read it.
Though we have the answer, what is the question? They said Earth is just a huge computer to make the answer for the question, but it was destroyed five minutes before the question was found. So, what could the question be, hmm?
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Re: 42
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2007, 11:39:42 am » |
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Adams just came up with it off the top of his head. He was rather amused when people kept trying to apply meaning to it. He just reached for a number and picked 42. End of story.  Heh... Good thing I just read it.
Though we have the answer, what is the question? They said Earth is just a huge computer to make the answer for the question, but it was destroyed five minutes before the question was found. So, what could the question be, hmm?
At the end of Restaurant At the End of the Universe, it is implied that the Question is SPOILER "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" Hey, sup. |
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Re: 42
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2007, 04:48:08 pm » |
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So, what could the question be, hmm?
... isn't that what my theory was about at the top? Adams just came up with it off the top of his head. He was rather amused when people kept trying to apply meaning to it. He just reached for a number and picked 42. End of story. Okay, so I was right! ... but I still like how nicely the theory fits. |
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Re: 42
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2007, 09:37:06 pm » |
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The question is "What if it's just a book and there's no need to really know what the question is in order to enjoy it?"
Or it could be "How many years old is a 42-year-old man?"
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Re: 42
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2008, 06:08:00 pm » |
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"What do you get when you multiply six by seven?"
Sorry for the bump but I just saw this thread, and... Arthur closed his eyes and plunged his hand into the towelful of stones. He jiggles them about, pulled out four and handed them to Ford. Ford laid them along the ground in the order he got them.
"W," said Ford, "H, A, T... What!"
He blinked.
"I think it's working!" he said.
Arthur pushed three more at him.
"D, O, Y... Doy. Oh, perhaps it isn't working," said Ford.
"Here's the next three."
"O, U, G... Doyoug.... It's not making sense I'm afraid."
Arthur pulled another two from the bag Ford put them in place.
"E, T, douyouget.... Do you get!" shouted Ford. "It is working! This is amazing, it really is working!"
"More here." Arthur was throwing them out feverishly as fast as he could go.
"I, F," said Ford, "Y, O, U...M, U, L, T, I, P, L, Y... What do you get if you multiply... S, I, X... six... B, Y, by, six by... what do you get if you multiply six by... N, I, N, E ... six by nine..." He paused. "Come on, where's the next one?"
"Er, that's the lot," said Arthur, "that's all there were."The question is not "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?", as seen by this quote. yet the incorrect "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" |
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Re: 42
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2008, 12:25:59 am » |
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Holy palooka, I've been 42PWNED.
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