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Title: 42
Article-I.D.: hou5a.320
Posted: Thu Apr  7 09:12:36 1983
Received: Sun Apr 10 04:09:18 1983


There is at least one other occurence of 42 in Carroll: in
The Hunting of the Snark, Fit the (aaaah - I forgot).

The stanza is (from memory)

	He had forty-two boxes all carefully packed
	With his name clearly painted on each
	But since he neglected to mention the fact
	They were all left behind on the beach.

As I recall, 'he' is the Banker, and that is the reason that
nobody knew his name (it was on the boxes, which were...)
throughout the agony.

Anyone got copies of each handy for the publication dates ?
I suspect that 'Wonderland' predates 'Snark', but without
my copies of the Annotated Alice/Snark I am lost.

				Jonathan Clark
				ABI Holmdel
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