Wednesday, November 29, 2006

What is 42 anyways?

To the uninitiated... there's an omnibus of 5 books written by a British author Douglas Adams. The work called Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a rather insane whirlwind trip of a very average guy called Arthur Dent across the Universe accompanied by a alien (masquerading as a human) called Ford Perfect, who is one of the writers for the strange yet successful travel guide (and source of quick information out of tight situations)

Insanity rules at all points in the story.

The storyline in the background is that Earth is a computer designed to compute the Question to which the answer has been arrived at as '42'

The answer spawned a culture wherein people believe 42 has a reason to be the answer to the Quintessential question or have just idolized it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything says it all...

But the bottomline is... nothing makes sense...
Like pulling out random scrabble tiles from a bag that say, "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE.?"

So here's the tribute to the insanity...

Stuff that has been pulled out of the bag called my mind...
New stuff as it pops up...