經典科幻文學:《宇宙盡頭的餐館》第18章4

“Yes you will,” enthused Zaphod, “there’s a whole new life stretching out ahead of you.”
“Oh, not another one,” groaned Marvin.
“Will you shut up and listen!” hissed Zaphod, “this time there’s going to be excitement and adventure and really wild things.”
“Sounds awful,” Marvin said.
“Marvin! All I’m trying to ask you…”
“I suppose you want me to open this spaceship for you?”
“What? Er… yes. Yeah, that’s right,” said Zaphod jumpily. He was keeping at least three eyes on the entrance. Time was short.
“Well I wish you’d just tell me rather than try to engage my enthusiasm,” said Marvin, “because I haven’t got one.”
He walked on up to the ship, touched it, and a hatchway swung open.
Ford and Zaphod stared at the opening.
“Don’t mention it,” said Marvin, “Oh, you didn’t.” He trudged away again.
Arthur and Trillian clustered round.
“What’s happening?” asked Arthur.
“Look at this,” said Ford, “look at the interior of this ship.”
“Weirder and weirder,” breathed Zaphod.
“It’s black,” said Ford, “Everything in it is just totally black…”
In the Restaurant, things were fast approaching the moment after which there wouldn’t be any more moments.

“不，你會喜歡的。”贊福德熱情地說，“全新的生活即將展現在你面前。”
“噢，別再來什麼全新的生活了。”馬文抱怨說。
“你給我閉嘴，然後聽着！”贊福德打斷他說，“這件事將是巨大的刺激、冒險，真正的瘋狂！”
“聽起來很糟糕。”馬文說。
“馬文！我要求你做的全部事情僅僅是……”
“我精你是想讓我替你打開這艘太空船？”
“什麼？嗯……啊……是的。是啊，你說得對。”贊福德神經質地說。他至少用一隻服睛盯着A，D。時間已經不多了。
“那麼，我希望你直接告訴我，而不是試圖激發起我的熱情，”馬文說，“因爲我根本段有那玩意兒。”
他走到飛船前，摸了摸它。一道艙門打開了。
福特和贊福德望着打開的地方。
“不用謝。”馬文說，“哦，你不會謝的，”說完，他蹣跚着走開了。
阿瑟和崔莉恩圍了過來。
“發生什麼事了？”阿瑟問。
“瞧這個，”福特說，”瞧這艘飛船的內部。”
“古怪，越來越古怪了。”贊福德吸了口氣說。
“黑色的，”福特|兌，“裏面所有東西全部都是黑色的……”
餐館裏正在迅速逼近某個時刻，而在那個時刻之後，將不會再有任何時刻了。