Douglas Adams, 1979· English
Forty-two, said Deep Thought The answer is spoken. Forty-two is in the wording. Adams later said he chose an ordinary smallish number. That authorial remark is reception of the joke, not a second sentence in the scene.
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Novel, 1979 (quoted under fair use for criticism) Forty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
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01 Source text 02 Transliteration 03 Morphology 04 Lexeme 05 Grammar 06 Semantic range 07 Immediate context 08 Other occurrences 09 Textual variants 10 Translations 11 Historical setting 12 Literary structure 13 Scholarly interpretations 14 Later reception 15 Numerical layer 16 Constellation 17 Next questions