Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Plain of Rars, bounded on the South side by the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains. According to the dying words of Prak, written here in letters of fire, is God's Final Message to His Creation. In , Arthur and Fenchurch journey here, and do indeed see the Message, and also discover there Marvin the Paranoid Android, who by that point is thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself. Argabuthon is a technologically advanced planet whose perspex Sceptre of Justice turned out to be part of the key to the Wikkit Gate. It is also the home of Prak, a man placed into
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" "fits", the word Carroll used to name the chapters of "The Hunting of the Snark". There is the persistent tale that 42 is Adams' tribute to the indefatigable paperback book, and is the average number of lines on an average page of an average paperback. Another common guess is that 42 refers to the number of laws in cricket, a recurring theme of the books. Mathematicians found a question whose answer is 42: what is the largest (rational) number n such that there are positive integers "p", "q", "r" such that