, de Douglas Adams, é uma paródia Brilhante sobre a obsessao filosófica de procurar o sentido da vida. Uma pessoa sai da leitura desse livro muito leve, e com a sensaçao de que essa busca do sentido último só pode ser uma piada.
O que acham deste problema do sentido último. Será que interessa?
The Ultimate Answer
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two." The reaction:
"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."