but he's wrong (at least in my case); I in no way took his work seriously, and that question just came to me out of the blue 8-) when some friends were worrisomely puzzling out what 6x9 = 42 could possibly mean. I've read his explanation and my theory is this (this is *my theory):
he may well have just thought 42 was a nice number, but I'll bet there is enough math(s) in his background that the question isn't just happenstance. that's it; that's my theory.