經典科幻文學:《生命 宇宙及一切》第22章3
Then why don’t you go and get one?
See you later, Arthur, said Trillian.
Something jogged Arthur’s mind, and he looked around huntedly.
Zaphod isn’t here, is he? he said.
See you, said Trillian firmly, later.
Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes, his beard bristled, what little light was there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.
He took Trillian’s elbow in his extremely large hand and the muscles in his upper arm moved around each other like a couple of Volkswagens parking.
He led her away.
One of the interesting things about being immortal, he said, is…
One of the interesting things about space, Arthur heard Slartibartfast saying to a large and voluminous creature who looked like someone losing a fight with a pink duvet and was gazing raptly at the old man’s deep eyes and silver beard, is how dull it is.
Dull? said the creature, and blinked her rather wrinkled and bloodshot eyes.
Yes, said Slartibartfast, staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so. You see, there’s so much of it and so little in it. Would you like me to quote some statistics?
Er, well…
Please, I would like to. They, too, are quite sensationally dull.
I’ll come back and hear them in a moment, she said, patting him on the arm, lifted up her skirts like a hovercraft and moved off into the heaving crown.
I thought she’d never go, growled the old man. Come, Earthman…
Arthur.
“那幹嘛不弄點去？”
“一會兒見阿瑟。”崔莉安說道。
阿瑟腦中閃過一念。他四處望了望。
“贊福德不在，是嗎？”
“一會兒見。”崔莉安不容置疑地說。
托爾用他那漆黑懾人的雙眼盯着阿瑟，他的鬍子根根直立，一束燈光投在他頭盔的角上，兇光四射。
托爾用他無比強壯的手臂挽住崔莉安的手肘，他上臂的肌肉起伏踊動，像是幾輛大衆汽車停進去了似的。
他把她帶走了。
“說到做神仙，有一點很有趣，”他說，“就是……”
“說到空間，有一點很有趣，”阿瑟聽見司拉提巴特法斯在跟誰說話。對方是一位蓬鬆的龐然大物，看起來像跟粉紅色羽絨被大戰過一場似的。這個生物正看着老人那深邃的雙眼和銀色的鬍鬚出神，“那就是，它非常無聊。”
“無聊？”這個生物眨了眨眼，她的眼睛皺巴巴的，佈滿血絲。
“是的。” 司拉提巴特法斯說，“無聊得驚人。無聊得可怕。你瞧，它是那麼大，卻又那麼空虛。你想聽我引用點數據嗎？”
“嗯，呃……”
“請讓我引用吧，我會很樂意的。那些數據，同樣無聊極了。”
“我一會再來聽吧。”她說。她拍拍老人的手臂，提起那氣墊船一樣的裙子，就走進了人羣中。
“我想她不會離開這兒的。”老人嘟噥着，“來吧，地球人。”
“阿瑟。”
