The Ultimate Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl.

"Is that all you've got to show for seven

and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly,"

said the computer,

"and that quite definitely is the answer.

I think the problem,

to be quite honest with you,

is that you've never actually

known what the question is."