經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第20章5

"I think they're just strange symbols of some kind," said Zaphod, hardly glancing back.
Trillian shrugged and hurried after him.
From time to time a doorway led either to the left or right into smallish chambers which Ford discovered to be full of derelict computer equipment. He dragged Zaphod into one to have a look. Trillian followed.
"Look," said Ford, "you reckon this is Magrathea ..."
"Yeah," said Zaphod, "and we heard the voice, right?"
"OK, so I've bought the fact that it's Magrathea — for the moment. What you have so far said nothing about is how in the Galaxy you found it. You didn't just look it up in a star atlas, that's for sure."
"Research. Government archives. Detective work. Few lucky guesses. Easy."
"And then you stole the Heart of Gold to come and look for it with?"
"I stole it to look for a lot of things."
"A lot of things?" said Ford in surprise. "Like what?"
"I don't know."
"What?"
"I don't know what I'm looking for."
"Why not?"
"Because ... because ... I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them."
"What, are you crazy?"
"It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good."
For a long time nobody said anything as Ford gazed at Zaphod with a mind suddenly full of worry.
"Listen old friend, if you want to ..." started Ford eventually.

“我想它們只是某種奇怪的符號。”贊福德說，甚至沒有回過頭來看一眼。
崔莉恩聳了聳肩，快步跟上他。
通道左右兩側不時會出現一些通往小房間的門，福特發現裏面滿是被遺棄的電腦設備。他把贊福德拖進其中一間，想仔細看一看。崔莉恩跟在後面。
“你瞧，”福特說，“你推測這裏就是曼格拉斯……”
“是啊，”贊福德說，“那個錄音我們不都聽到了嗎？”
“是的，所以我才接受了這個推斷——只是在當時。可你幾乎從沒說過你在偌大一個銀河系中是如何找到它的。不會僅僅依靠星際地圖吧，這是肯定的。”
“研究、政府檔案、偵察工作，再加上一點兒碰巧的猜測。其實很簡單。”
“然後你就偷了黃金之心號來找？”
“我偷它是爲了尋找許多東西。”
“許多東西？”福特吃驚地說，“比如什麼？”
“我也不知道。”
“什麼？”
“我也不知道我在尋找些什麼。”
“怎麼會不知道呢？”
“因爲……因爲……我想，如果知道的話，我就用不着去尋找了。”
“什麼，你瘋了嗎？”
“這倒真是我還沒有排除的一種可能。”贊福德平靜地說，“我對自己的瞭解只能侷限於我自己的腦子在當前情況下的實際工作狀況，我想它當前的情況並不太好。”
很長一段時間都沒有人開口，福特則盯着贊福德，心裏突然間充滿憂慮。
“聽着，老朋友，如果你想……”最後還是福特打破了沉默。