經典科幻文學:《宇宙盡頭的餐館》第15章2

It is built on the fragmented remains of an eventually ruined planet which is (wioll haven be) enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected forward in time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe.
This is, many would say, impossible.
In it, guests take (willan on-take) their places at table and eat (willan on-eat) sumptuous meals whilst watching (willing watchen) the whole of creation explode around them.
This is, many would say, equally impossible.
You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you like without prior (late fore-when) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.)
This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible. At the Restaurant you can meet and dine with (mayan meetan con with dinan on when) a fascinating cross-section of the entire population of space and time.
This, it can be explained patiently, is also impossible.
You can visit it as many times as you like (mayan on-visit re-onvisiting… and so on – for further tense-corrections consult Dr. Streetmentioner’s book) and be sure of never meeting yourself, because of the embarrassment this usually causes.
This, even if the rest were true, which it isn’t, is patently impossible, say the doubters. All you have to do is deposit one penny in a savings account in your own era, and when you arrive at the End of Time the operation of compound interest means that the fabulous cost of your meal has been paid for.
This, many claim, is not merely impossible but clearly insane, which is why the advertising executives of the star system of Bastablon came up with this slogan: “If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?”

它建在一顆最終將被毀滅的行星的廢墟上，這顆行星被（將會被）包裹在一個巨大的時間泡裏，並且在時間中向前凸出，到達宇宙盡頭的那一刻，也就是宇宙盡頭餐館存在的那一刻。
許多人會說，這不可能。
在它裏面，客人們在餐桌旁找到（將已經找到）自己的位子，一邊享用（已經將享用）豐盛的食物，一邊看着（正在將已經看着】整個宇宙在他們周圍爆炸。
許多人會說，這同樣不可能。
你可以到（當時已經將已經到）你喜歡的任何位子上去，而不用預先（在當時以後的之前）訂座，因爲你可以在回到你自己的時間後（你可以已經預訂了，在已經正在已經回到自己的時間後）追溯預訂，就像以前預訂過一樣。
許多人今後的現在會認定，這絕對不可能。你能夠碰見全部時空內存在的全部人口中那些最迷人的代表人物，並和他們共餐（已經將已經碰見並且已經正在其同進餐）
這一點目前同樣將被認定是不町能的，
只要你喜歡，你可以無限次地造訪這家餐館（已經將造訪重新正在造訪）諸如此類——欲瞭解進一步的時態修正，請參考唐·史崔特門興內爾博士的著作），只不過需要確保永遠不要碰見你自己，因爲那種情形通常都會引起十分尷尬的局面。
懷疑者們會說，即使有關這家餐館的其他情況是真的（其實不是），這一點顯然也是不可能的。你所需要做的，僅僅是在你自己賬戶。這樣，當你來到時間盡頭時，複合利率的運作就將意味着你的鉅額餐費已經付過了。
許多人已經聲稱，這不僅不可能，而且荒誕無稽。這也就是爲什麼巴斯塔布隆星系的廣告經理們會打出這樣的標語：“如果你今天早上已經做了六件不可能的事，爲什麼不去‘天盡頭’——宇宙盡頭餐館——吃頓早餐，給這一切來個大總結呢？”