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Originally Posted by Jake177
if my memory serves me, nobody can ever know both the question and the answer. as soon as someone figures out both the universe will dissapear and be replaced with something more complicated. "what what do you get when you multiply six by nine?" is the question that the aliens who desiged deep though made up after earth was destroyed. they also considered "how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"
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Yes, but don't you rember that is what happened to Fenchurch...
"And suddenly, there it was in my mind, this message from somewhere. And it was so simple. It made such sense of everything ..."
If you rember the mice wanted Authur's brain because they said that the Answer was in every human's brain... Soooooo.... What if a second before the World got zapped, Fenchurch discovered the question and made the Universe become that so much stranger place. Because it was at that point that the books took a turn and everything became much more chaotic, what with the Guide selling products to millions of dimensions. Also, rules just started appearing out of the blue, such as passangers from the plural Z sectors should not go into hyperspace, even though Trillian and Authur had been doing it for years without any bad side effects.
On a side note there was supposed to be another book in the series, but sadly Douglas Adams passed away before he finished it. Although, what he completed it available in a book called
The Salmon of Doubt . If you would also like more information on Douglas Adams visit his website at
www.h2g2.com (The people at h2g2 are acually compiling a Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy complete with recipe to make the perfect martini).