42
long time fans will know that it comes up everywhere - everywhere!
well i was just finishing my final year dissertation - which all of the chapter titles are named after the books, and there is a page of quotes when you open the essay that are relevant (im writing "the betrayal of death" - theatrical aesthetics of the apocalyse) and i just printed it off
and there are exactly 42 pages!!!
not planned - the Douglas quotes were already in there.
wicked!