银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第8章 Part 2

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第8章 Part 2  

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that if you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However it goes on to say that what with space being the mind boggling size it is the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are o to the power of o hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. By a totally staggering coincidence that is also the telephone number of an Islington flat where Arthur once went to a very good party and met a very nice girl whom he totally failed to get off with — she went off with a gatecrasher.
Though the pla Earth
the Islington flat and the telephone have all now been demolished
it is forting to reflect that they are all in some small way memorated by the fact that enty-nine seconds later Ford and Arthur were rescued.
A puter chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent Reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long
a nothingth of an inch wide
and quite a lot of million light years from end to end.
As it closed up lots of paper hats and party balloons fell out of it and drifted off through the universe. A team of seven three-foot-high market analysts fell out of it and died
partly of asphyxication
partly of surprise.
Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it too
materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system.
The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.