Variations of a theme
 

Word # 42 of each page of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", first 42 pages

Green café contains years eight
visual cleared at locked the he
to I the to you haven’t awkwardly
Arthur the the so Arthur him basking
had sail somethings them looked it
Mr. in as of in means shooting
the job appearance a

this experiment definitely was an interesting one ... quite a few options for word combinations.

Were the words in order here as they appeared through the 42 pages?

these were exactly as they appear. Green is the 42nd word of page 1, cafe is #42 of page 2, etc. I was thinking to follow up with a story made up of just a single word from each page of something like War & Peace. But, that book is just so thick, and I'm just so lazy...