银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第29章

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第29章  

Chapter 29
"Zaphod! Wake up!"
"Mmmmmwwerrrrr?"
"Hey e on
wake up."
"Just let me stick to what I'm good at
yeah?" muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.
"Do you want me to kick you?" said Ford.
"Would it give you a lot of pleasure?" said Zaphod
blearily.
"No."
"Nor me. So what's the point? Stop bugging me." Zaphod curled himself up.
"He got a double dose of the gas
" said Trillian looking down at him
"o windpipes."
"And stop talking
" said Zaphod
"it's hard enough trying to sleep anyway. What's the matter with the ground? It's all cold and hard."
"It's gold
" said Ford.
With an amazingly balletic movement Zaphod was standing and scanning the horizon
because that was how far the gold ground stretched in every direction
perfectly smooth and solid. It gleamed like ... it's impossible to say what it gleamed like because nothing in the Universe gleams in quite the same way that a pla of solid gold does.
"Who put all that there?" yelped Zaphod
goggle-eyed.
"Don't get excited
" said Ford
"it's only a catalogue."
"A who?"
"A catalogue
" said Trillian
"an illusion."
"How can you say that?" cried Zaphod
falling to his hands and knees and staring at the ground. He poked it and prodded it with his fingernail. It was very heavy and very slightly soft — he could mark it with his fingernail. It was very yellow and very shiny
and when he breathed on it his breath evaporated off it in that very peculiar and special way that breath evaporates off solid gold.
"Trillian and I came round a while ago
" said Ford. "We shouted and yelled till somebody came and then carried on shouting and yelling till they got fed up and put us in their pla catalogue to keep us busy till they were ready to deal with us. This is all Sens-O-Tape."