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Literature
Rooms of reading, and sentences that used 42 on purpose.
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- 42Adams’s 42
Adams chose 42 on purpose. Adams said so. It was a joke that had to be an ordinary smallish number.
- 42Forty-two boxes
“He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed… They were all left behind on the beach.”
- 42 yearsJoseph’s 42-year vigil
The 42 is Joseph’s vigil in Robert de Boron / the Vulgate Estoire. Johnson interprets; he is not the 42.
- 42Rule Forty-two
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
- 42Tenniel’s 42
The first Alice is counted as forty-two Tenniel pictures. Neighbor to Rule Forty-two and the Snark’s boxes; not the same object.