經典科幻文學:《 再見 多謝你們的魚》第5章5

Having fun: This is the big section. It is impossible to have More fun without electrocuting your pleasure centres…
Ford flipped the switch which he saw was now marked “Mode Execute Ready” instead of the now old-fashioned “Access Standby” which had so long ago replaced the appallingly stone-aged “Off”.
This was a planet he had seen completely destroyed, seen with his own two eyes or rather, blinded as he had been by the hellish disruption of air and light, felt with his own two feet as the ground had started to pound at him like a hammer, bucking, roaring, gripped by tidal waves of energy pouring out of the loathsome yellow Vogon ships.

There was no mistake, there couldn’t have been. The Earth had definitely been destroyed. Definitely, definitely. Boiled away into space. And yet here he activated the Guide again was his own entry on how you would set about having a good time in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, which he had always prided himself on as being one of the most baroque pieces of invention he had ever delivered. He read it again and shook his head in sheer wonder.
Suddenly he realized what the answer to the problem was, and it was this, that something very weird was happening; and if something very weird was happening, he thought, he wanted it to be happening to him.
He stashed the Guide back in his satchel and hurried out on to the street again.

“關於找樂子：這可是個重頭戲。再也沒有比往你的興奮點上通電更爽的了......”
福特合上指南的開關，那裏如今標着“功能預備處理中”，代替了老式的“接入待命中”，而“接入待命中”原先則是取代了古董級的“離線”。

這是他親自見證了滅亡的一顆星球，他用雙眼看見空氣和光分解、毀滅，猶如地獄一般；他用雙腳感受到地面像重錘一般撞擊他，大地崩裂、怒吼，被噁心的黃色沃貢飛船所發射的能量波摧毀。
那不是誤會，不可能是誤會。地球絕對完了。絕對，絕對完了。它蒸發到了太空中。可是這兒——他再一次打開指南——是他自己寫下的關於你如何遊覽伯恩茅斯、多西特（注3）和英格蘭的條目，他過去經常爲自己這些有史以來最巴洛克風格的文字所驕傲。
突然間他明白問題出在哪兒了，那就是，一些相當詭異的事發生了；如果那些相當詭異的事發生了，他希望那些事發生在自己身上。
他把指南裝回包裏然後再一次跑到街上。