日本科幻文学 经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第2章5

经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第2章5  

At that precise moment Zaphod Beeblebrox was in his cabin swearing very loudly. Two hours ago
he had said that they would go for a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
whereupon he had had a blazing row with the ship’s puter and stormed off to his cabin shouting that he would work out the Improbability factors with a pencil.
The Heart of Gold’s Improbability Drive made it the most powerful and unpredictable ship in existence. There was nothing it couldn’t do
provided you knew exactly how improbable it was that the thing you wanted it to do would ever happen.
He had stolen it when
as President
he was meant to be launching it. He didn’t know exactly why he had stolen it
except that he liked it.
He didn’t know why he had bee President of the Galaxy
except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
He did know that there were better reasons than these
but that they were buried in a dark
locked off section of his o brains. He wished the dark
locked off section of his o brains would go away because they occasionally surfaced momentarily and put strange thoughts into the light
fun sections of his mind and tried to deflect him from what he saw as being the basic business of his life
which was to have a wonderfully good time.
At the moment he was not having a wonderfully good time. He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.
“Starpox!” he shouted.