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3

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第18章3  

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale
this poor innocent creature had very little time to e to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to e to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a plete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah ... ! What's happening? it thought.
Er
excuse me
who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down
get a grip now ... oh! this is an interesting sensation
what is it? It's a sort of ... yawning
tingling sensation in my ... my ... well I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world
so let's call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh
it's getting quite strong. And hey
what's about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that ... wind! Is that a good name? It'll do ... perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This ... let's call it a tail — yeah
tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now - have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind
hey
this is really exciting
so much to find out about
so much to look forward to
I'm quite dizzy with anticipation ...
Or is it the wind?