There are still a few chapters left in this book, but I'm not going to finish it before writing it-I haven't read much since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic. It's weird, too I sat there quietly when I had plenty of time, but my eyes moved from the computer to the pad, from the pad to the mobile phone, from the mobile phone to the window, from the window to the computer. I changed my sitting position, prone position and standing position. Even if I picked up the book, I couldn't read it. I haven't seen it for a long time. After a while, I don't know where my soul is. I said, this is anxiety!
Undoubtedly, this anxiety comes from the current "national disaster": I always want to do something but find that I can't do anything. The greatest contribution I can make is to stay at home and not go anywhere. I think I have a little understanding of the group of young people more than 80 years ago. Why did they abandon their pens and join the army? Of course, the reality may not be as serious as imagined, at least it is not the end of the world-imagine how anxious you would be if you learned that the earth was going to die one day.
Just like in this book, the protagonist Arthur didn't know that the end was coming until 12 minutes before the earth was destroyed, but most people on earth only had 2 minutes to savor the news. Therefore, panic is the biggest reaction that people can make in these two minutes. But panic has no power in the face of destruction, a white light flashes, and the earth goes up in smoke. All this is just because a fast passage built by the Milky Way is about to cross the earth, just like knocking down a house in order to build a highway on the earth.
Later, the hero and his alien friends boarded a building spaceship and were thrown out. Because it was impossible, they were just rescued by a spaceship propelled by an infinitely impossible engine. Later, I learned that the earth is just a romantic thing customized for the rich in the universe. It is actually a mouse that rules the earth. The ultimate meaning of life, the universe and all problems is 42. ...
Well, the whole book is full of these incoherent and inexplicable madness. For serious readers, this book can be classified as "what the hell". It's a waste of time to throw it away after reading two sentences. For imaginative readers, the number 42 can be interpreted in countless ways, and it will also tell you what Fugang means in the third worst poem in the universe, not to mention metaphor, innuendo, the author's caution, various allusions and so on. The good thing is that I think the translation quality of this book is quite good. Humor between different languages is difficult to convey accurately, while British humor is closer to cold humor, and sometimes it needs to be pondered to understand where the stem is, so many translator's notes are used in the book to tell you: Here is the stem, take it, and you can laugh with it. (It means that someone is worried that you can't laugh, standing next to you and scratching your armpit. ) still has a certain effect. Anyway, when I go to work (before the epidemic), I take time to look at the subway and giggle there.
As for why it is 42, I have no ability to understand. This is the answer that a super super super ... computer has been running for 7.5 million years. One thing can be understood a little: putting something in one dimension is a big deal, and it may be nothing in another dimension. Just like the earth, it is home to the earth people and the whole world, but it is a house that was demolished in the blink of an eye for the Galaxy Construction Team. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy even describes the earth in only four words: basically harmless. So, I'll see if I can ease my anxiety from another dimension-for example, the earth has not been destroyed. Don’t panic！