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Hello, welcome to another Rahalistaba Book Club this week. I'm delighted to be joined by John Lloyd, who is reissuing the meaning of lift, and this is called the meaning of lift is 42. It's a very good cash in. But this is 42, of Lift, and this is called The Meaning of Lift, is 42. It's a very good cash-in.

This is 42, of course, being a very significant number in the co-author of this book, which is Douglas Adams.

Hello, John. Hello, Richard. How lovely to be here.

I'm really lovely to have you on again. I'm lovely to see you. And really lovely to have another look at Meaning of Lift, which I have, I think, at least one. I've certainly got both the afterliff as well. I think I might have more than one copy of Meaning of Liff. You've got an afterliff, that's good. Yeah, I've definitely got afterliff. And it has been reissued a few times. Rightly so as well, because it's an enduring classic. Do you want to tell us, as you do in the

intro to this, tell us a little bit about the creation of meaning of lift first and where this

idea came from? Yeah, well, Douglas Adams was my very best friend. We were very, very close.

We tried to be writers together.

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