經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第4章 Part 5

Beneath it lay uncovered a huge starship, one hundred and fifty metres long, shaped like a sleek running shoe, perfectly white and mindboggingly beautiful. At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wretching device ever conceived, a device which made this starship unique in the history of the galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named — The Heart of Gold.
"Wow", said Zaphod Beeblebrox to the Heart of Gold. There wasn't much else he could say.
He said it again because he knew it would annoy the press. "Wow."
The crowd turned their faces back towards him expectantly. He winked at Trillian who raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes at him. She knew what he was about to say and thought him a terrible showoff.
"That is really amazing," he said. "That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it."
A marvellous Presidential quote, absolutely true to form. The crowd laughed appreciatively, the Newsmen gleefully punched buttons on their Sub-Etha News-Matics and the President grinned.
As he grinned his heart screamed unbearably and he fingered the small Paralyso-Matic bomb that nestled quietly in his pocket.
Finally he could bear it no more. He lifted his heads up to the sky, let out a wild whoop in major thirds, threw the bomb to the ground and ran forward through the sea of suddenly frozen smiles.

在這個穹頂下面，露出來的是一艘巨大的飛船，足有150米長，外形看上去像一隻光滑的跑鞋，純白色的，漂亮極了。就在這艘飛船的心臟位置，看不見的地方，放着一個小小的黃金盒子，裏面裝着頭腦所能構想出來的最偉大的裝置，正是這個裝置使得這艘飛船成爲銀河系歷史上獨一無二的飛船，飛船的名字正是按照這個裝置的名字來取的——黃金之心。
“哇！”贊福德·畢博布魯克斯對着黃金之心讚歎道。他確實也找不到別的什麼話來表達此刻的感受了。
他又重複了一遍，因爲他知道這會使記者們感到很惱火。“哇。”
人們紛紛轉過臉來期待地看着贊福德。他則衝崔莉恩眨了一下眼，她正揚起眉毛睜大眼睛望着他。她知道他將要說些什麼，她很清楚他是個多麼愛炫耀自己的人。
“真是太驚人了，”他說，“絕對震撼！這東西簡直讓人瘋狂，我甚至想把它偷走。”
這可是句貨真價實的總統語錄，絕對值得大大引用一番。人羣中爆發出讚賞的掌聲，新聞記者們則一個個喜笑顏開地敲打着亞以太新聞機的按鍵。總統咧開嘴笑了。
正笑着，他的心臟卻發出了令人難以忍受的尖叫，他趕緊把手伸進衣兜，捏住靜靜躺在裏面的那顆小小的麻痹劑炸彈。
終於，他無法再忍受了，於是仰頭向着天，用大三度的高音發出一聲野性的叫喊，同時把炸彈扔到地上，然後朝前猛衝，穿過那一片突然凝固的笑臉的海洋。