银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第18章4

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第18章4  

There really is a lot of that now isn't it?
And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly ing towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round
it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name — ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest
after a sudden wet thud
was silence.
Curiously enough
the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no
not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
"Are we taking this robot with us?" said Ford
looking with distaste at Marvin who was standing in an awkward hunched posture in the corner under a small palm tree.
Zaphod glanced away from the mirror screens which presented a panoramic view of the blighted landscape on which the Heart of Gold had now landed.
"Oh
the Paranoid Android
" he said. "Yeah
we'll take him."
"But what are supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?"
"You think you've got problems
" said Marvin as if he was addressing a newly occupied coffin
"what are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No
don't bother to answer that
I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level."
Trillian burst in through the door from her cabin.
"My white mice have escaped!" she said.