日本科幻文学 经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第24章7

经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第24章7  

“Yes
about half I’d say. Anyway – where’s the soap?” He fished around and found it.
“Yes
so anyway
” he resumed
“the idea was that into the first ship
the ‘A’ ship
would go all the brilliant leaders
the scientists
the great artists
you know
all the achievers; and into the third
or ‘C’ ship
would go all the people who did the actual work
who made things and did things
and then into the ‘B’ ship – that’s us – would go everyone else
the middlemen you see.”
He smiled happily at them.
“And we were sent off first
” he concluded
and hummed a little bathing tune.
The little bathing tune
which had been posed for him by one of his world’s most exciting and prolific jingle writer (who was currently asleep in hold thirty-six some nine hundred yards behind them) covered what would otherwise have been an awkward moment of silence. Ford and Arthur shuffled their feet and furiously avoided each other’s eyes.
“Er…” said Arthur after a moment
“what exactly was it that was wrong with your pla then?”
“Oh
it was doomed
as I said
” said the Captain
“Apparently it was going to crash into the sun or something. Or maybe it was that the moon was going to crash into us. Something of the kind. Absolutely terrifying prospect whatever it was.”
“Oh
” said the first officer suddenly
“I thought it was that the pla was going to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of elve foot piranha bees. Wasn’t that it?”
Number Two span around
eyes ablaze with a cold hard light that only es with the amount of practice he was prepared to put in.
“That’s not what I was told!” he hissed
“My manding officer told me that the entire pla was in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat!”
“Oh really…” said Ford Prefect.