日本科幻文学 经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第2章1

经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第2章1  

Chapter 2
Like all Vogon ships it looked as if it had been not so much designed as congealed. The unpleasant yellow lumps and edifices which protruded from it at unsightly angles would have disfigured the looks of most ships
but in this case that was sadly impossible. Uglier things have been spotted in the skies
but not by reliable witnesses.
In fact to see anything much uglier than a Vogon ship you would have to go inside and look at a Vogon. If you are wise
however
this is precisely what you will avoid doing because the average Vogon will not think ice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born – or (if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never been born.
In fact
the average Vogon probably wouldn’t even think once. They are simple-minded
thick-willed
slug-brained creatures
and thinking is not really something they are cut out for. Anatomical analysis of the Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a badly deformed
misplaced and dyspeptic liver. The fairest thing you can say about them
then
is that they know what they like
and what they like generally involves hurting people and
wherever possible
getting very angry.
One thing they don’t like is leaving a job unfinished – particularly this Vogon
and particularly – for various reasons – this job.