一本科幻书 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第20章4

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第20章4  

"Whose? Yours or mine?"
"Good lad. OK
here we go."
Zaphod scrambled down into the passage
followed by Trillian and Ford.
"Well I hope you all have a really miserable time
" plained Arthur.
"Don't worry
" Marvin assured him
"they will."
In a few seconds they had disappeared from view.
Arthur stamped around in a huff
and then decided that a whale's graveyard is not on the whole a good place to stamp around in.
Marvin eyed him balefully for a moment
and then turned himself off.
Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway
nervous as hell
but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. He flung the torch beam around. The walls were covered in dark tiles and were cold to the touch
the air thick with decay.
"There
what did I tell you?" he said. "An inhabited pla. Magrathea
" and he strode on through the dirt and debris that littered the tile floor.
Trillian was reminded unavoidably of the London Underground
though it was less thoroughly squalid.
At intervals along the walls the tiles gave way to large mosaics — simple angular patterns in bright colours. Trillian stopped and studied one of them but could not interpret any sense in them. She called to Zaphod.
"Hey
have you any idea what these strange symbols are?"