银河系漫游指南好看吗 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第4章 Part 1

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第4章 Part 1  

Chapter 4
Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy
five hundred thousand light years from the star Sol
Zaphod Beeblebrox
President of the Imperial Galactic Government
sped across the seas of Damogran
his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.
Damogran the hot; Damogran the remote; Damogran the almost totally unheard of.
Damogran
secret home of the Heart of Gold.
But it was not in any way a coincidence that today
the day of culmination of the project
the great day of unveiling
the day that the Heart of Gold was finally to be introduced to a marvelling Galaxy
was also a great day of culmination for Zaphod Beeblebrox. It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the Presidency
a decision which had sent waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy — Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President? Many had seen it as a clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas.
Zaphod grinned and gave the boat an extra kick of speed.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
adventurer
ex-hippy
good timer
(crook? quite possibly)
manic self-publicist
terribly bad at personal relationships
often thought to be pletely out to lunch.
President?
No one had gone bananas
not in that way at least.
Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed
and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait acpli: he was the ideal Presidency fodder footnote{ President: full title President of the Imperial Galactic Government.} .
What they pletely failed to understand was why Zaphod was doing it.
He banked sharply
shooting a wild wall of water at the sun.
Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox's Presidency was all about. Today was also his o hundredth birthday
but that was just another meaningless coincidence.