Me: Do you know what this book needs? A living mobius strip.

My wife: Give it teeth.

42 is the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. I’ve heard it said that the reason Deep Thought gave this answer is because the asterisk, a symbol used in programming as a wild card or ‘anything you want it to be’, is designated in ASCII as ’42’.

Thus, the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is ‘anything you want it to be’.

I like that. That’s my canon.

Ladies, gentlemen, and all in between: for exchanges like the one above, and a million other reasons I could never hope to properly convey, my wife is my 42.

That is all.