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Cambridge Independent
Cambridge Independent
Delving into the private notebooks of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams has unearthed some “golden nuggets”, according to his biographer and friend Kevin Jon Davies Kevin’s book, which is being published to coincide with an exhibition of the Adams archive at St John’s College next month, has unearthed the trains of thought that led to some of the writer’s best ideas. From the origins of some of his characters to the real reason Adams chose the number 42 as the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything – the seeds of these ideas were tucked away in hi…