經典科幻文學:《宇宙盡頭的餐館》第1章2
Or so it would seem.
Two of there strange, ape-like creatures survived.
Arthur Dent escaped at the very last moment because an old friend of his, Ford Prefect, suddenly turned out to be from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he had hitherto claimed; and, more to the point, he knew how to hitch rides on flying saucers.
Tricia McMillian – or Trillian – had skipped the planet six months earlier with Zaphod Beeblebrox, the then President of the Galaxy.
Two survivors.
They are all that remains of the greatest experiment ever conducted – to find the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
And, less than half a million miles from where their starship is drifting lazily through the inky blackness of space, a Vogon ship is moving slowly towards them.
或者說，似乎是這樣。
這種長得和猿差不多的奇怪生物中，只有兩個倖存下來。
阿瑟·鄧特在最後一刻逃脫了和地球一起消失的厄運，這多虧了他的一個老朋友，福特長官。這位朋友突然宣佈了自己的真實身份：他其實來自獵戶座參宿四附近的一顆小行星，而非在此之前他自己所一直聲稱的那樣，來自吉爾福德；並且，更關鍵的是，他恰好知道如何搭上飛碟的便車。
崔茜卡·麥克米倫——或者叫做崔莉恩——則是此前六個月離開的地球。她和當時的銀河系總統贊福德·畢博布魯克斯在一起。
是的，僅有的兩個倖存者。
他們就是有史以來最大的一次實驗所殘存下來的全部內容了——那是爲了尋找關於生命、宇宙以及一切終極問題和終極答案的一次實驗。
此刻，當他們的星際飛船在漆黑的太空中懶洋洋地飄蕩時，不到五十萬英里以外，一艘沃貢人的飛船正在緩慢地接近他們。
