經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第18章1

"And you'll never walk alone ... Impact minus five seconds, it's been great knowing you guys, God bless ... You'll ne ... ver ... walk ... alone!"
"I said," yelled Trillian, "does anyone know ..."
The next thing that happened was a mid-mangling explosion of noise and light.
And the next thing that happened after that was that the Heart of Gold continued on its way perfectly normally with a rather fetchingly redesigned interior. It was somewhat larger, and done out in delicate pastel shades of green and blue. In the centre a spiral staircase, leading nowhere in particular, stood in a spray of ferns and yellow flowers and next to it a stone sundial pedestal housed the main computer terminal. Cunningly deployed lighting and mirrors created the illusion of standing in a conservatory overlooking a wide stretch of exquisitely manicured garden. Around the periphery of the conservatory area stood marble-topped tables on intricately beautiful wrought-iron legs. As you gazed into the polished surface of the marble the vague forms of instruments became visible, and as you touched them the instruments materialized instantly under your hands. Looked at from the correct angles the mirrors appeared to reflect all the required data readouts, though it was far from clear where they were reflected from. It was in fact sensationally beautiful.
Relaxing in a wickerwork sun chair, Zaphod Beeblebrox said, "What the hell happened?"
"Well I was just saying," said Arthur lounging by a small fish pool, "there's this Improbability Drive switch over here ..." he waved at where it had been. There was a potted plant there now.
"But where are we?" said Ford who was sitting on the spiral staircase, a nicely chilled Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in his hand.
"Exactly where we were, I think ..." said Trillian, as all about them the mirrors showed them an image of the blighted landscape of Magrathea which still scooted along beneath them.
Zaphod leapt out of his seat.

“你從不會孤單……距離撞擊還有5秒，夥計們，上帝保佑……你從……不會……孤獨！”
“我在問，”崔莉恩叫道，“有誰知道……”
接下來發生的是一場爆炸，噪音和閃光彷彿要把人的頭撕裂開來。
這場爆炸過後，黃金之心號繼續非常正常地航行在它的航線上，只是內部經過了重新設計。空間更大了些，整理得很乾淨，泛着淡雅柔和的綠色和藍色。在一座不通向任何地方的螺旋形樓梯中間樹立着一株蕨類植物，開着黃色的小花。旁邊是一個石頭日晷的基座，上面是主電腦終端。燈光和鏡子佈置得十分巧妙，待在這裏像置身暖房中間，面對經過精心修剪的花園。在暖房區的邊緣，放着幾張大理石面的桌子，桌腿是漂亮的鍛造金屬。盯着光亮的大理石表面時便可以透過石面隱約看見裏面控制設備的模糊輪廓，只要你伸手去觸摸，這些設備就會真實地掌握在你手中。從適當的角度觀察這些鏡子，會看到所有你所需要的數據，雖然不是特別清晰。總之，這個空間實在漂亮極了。
身心鬆弛地坐在一張柳條編成的太陽椅裏，贊福德·畢博布魯克斯說：“究竟他媽的發生了些什麼？”
“哦，我正準備說呢，”阿瑟懶洋洋地靠在一個小魚池旁邊，“那邊是非概率驅動的開關……”他向曾經是那個開關的地方揮了揮手。那地方現在擺着一盆植物。
“可我們現在是在哪兒？”福特說，他坐在螺旋形樓梯上，手裏拿着一瓶冰凍的泛銀河系含漱爆破藥。
“應該還在我們原來所在的地方，我想……”崔莉恩說，因爲此時他們周圍的鏡子突然同時顯示出曼格拉斯表面死寂的景象，這顆行星仍然在他們下方轉動着。
贊福德從座位上跳起來。