银河系漫游指南 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第27章2

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第27章2  

"Seven and a half million years our race has waited for this Great and Hopefully Enlightening Day!" cried the cheer leader. "The Day of the Answer!"
Hurrahs burst from the ecstatic crowd.
"Never again
" cried the man
"never again will we wake up in the morning and think Who am I? What is my purpose in life? Does it really
cosmically speaking
matter if I don't get up and go to work? For today we will finally learn once and for all the plain and simple answer to all these nagging little problems of Life
the Universe and Everything!"
As the crowd erupted once again
Arthur found himself gliding through the air and down towards one of the large stately windows on the first floor of the building behind the dais from which the speaker was addressing the crowd.
He experienced a moment's panic as he sailed straight through towards the window
which passed when a second or so later he found he had gone right through the solid glass without apparently touching it.
No one in the room remarked on his peculiar arrival
which is hardly surprising as he wasn't there. He began to realize that the whole experience was merely a recorded projection which knocked six-track seventy-millimetre into a cocked hat.
The room was much as Slartibartfast had described it. In seven and a half million years it had been well looked after and cleaned regularly every century or so. The ultramahagony desk was worn at the edges
the carpet a little faded now
but the large puter terminal sat in sparkling glory on the desk's leather top
as bright as if it had been constructed yesterday.
Two severely dressed men sat respectfully before the terminal and waited.