經典科幻文學:《宇宙盡頭的餐館》第17章12
“The car park?” said Zaphod, “what are you doing there?”
“Parking cars, what else does one do in a car park?”
“OK, hang in there, we’ll be right down.”
In one movement Zaphod leapt to his feet, threw down the phone and wrote “Hotblack Desiato” on the bill.
“Come on guys,” he said, “Marvin’s in the car park. Let’s get on down.”
“What’s he doing in the car park?” asked Arthur.
“Parking cars, what else? Dum dum.”
“But what about the End of the Universe? We’ll miss the big moment.”
“I’ve seen it. It’s rubbish,” said Zaphod, “nothing but a gnab gib.”
“A what?”
“Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let’s get zappy.” Few of the other diners paid them any attention as they weaved their way through the Restaurant to the exit. Their eyes were riveted on the horror of the skies.
“An interesting effect to watch for,” Max was telling them, “is in the upper left-hand quadrant of the sky, where if you look very carefully you can see the star system Hastromil boiling away into the ultra-violet. Anyone here from Hastromil?”
There were one or two slightly hesitant cheers from somewhere at the back.
“Well,” said Max beaming cheerfully at them, “it’s too late to worry about whether you left the gas on now.”
“停車場？”贊福德說，“你在那兒幹嗎？”
“停車，一個人在停車場還能幹嗎？”
“好吧，你再堅持一下，我們這就下來。”
贊福德跳起來，扔掉電話，在賬單上籤下“霍特布萊克·迪西亞託”。
“走吧，夥計們，”他說，“馬文正在停車場。我們下去吧”
“他在停車場幹什麼？”阿瑟問。
“停車唄，還能幹什麼？走吧，走吧。”
“可是宇宙的終結怎麼辦呢？我們將會錯過這個最盛大的時刻。”
“我以前看過的。一錢不值，”贊福德說，“小貓一隻。”
“一隻什麼？”
“創世大爆炸的反面而已；走吧，咱們去找別的事幹。”他們穿過餐廳走向出口，其他用餐者絲毫沒有留意。這些人的眼睛早已同定在令人恐懼的天空景觀上。
“值得觀察的一個有趣的現象，”馬克斯正在對他們說，“就在天空左上角的那個扇面內。如果你看得非常仔細的話，你會看到哈斯特洛米爾星系正蒸騰成紫外線輻射。這裏有人來自哈斯特洛米爾嗎？”
後面某個地方傳來一兩聲微弱、猶豫的歡呼。
“好吧，”馬克斯說，一邊高興地衝他們微笑着，“現在再擔心你們是不是忘了關煤氣，似乎已經太晚了。”
