生命、宇宙以及一切
Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams · 初版 1982 年
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为什么值得读
- 借长生不老者的故事探讨永生心理
- 展现了乌云蔽日的克里基特星构想
- 随口笑话中蕴含深刻的哲学构思
《Life, the Universe and Everything》是英国作家 Douglas Adams 所著的五部曲科幻“三部曲”《Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy》中的第三部。书名指的是关于生命、宇宙以及一切的终极答案（Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything）。
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……关于长生不老的人类心理学：多克托罗（Doctorow）的《魔幻王国的穷困潦倒》（Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom）很赞。而更短小精悍、“看似搞笑实则严肃”（ha-ha-only-serious）的版本，则是道格拉斯·亚当斯在《生命、宇宙以及一切》（Life, the Universe, and Everything）里关于“无限延寿者”瓦格（Wowbagger）的故事。（道格拉斯·亚当斯就是那种随口讲个烂梗都能概括一整套哲学小说的人。）至于关于长生不老是否属于“不容置疑的人权”：可以看看罗杰·泽拉兹尼的《光明王》（Lord of Light）……
…psychology of the immortal human: Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is good. The much shorter, ha-ha-only-serious version is the tale of Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged in Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe, and Everything. (Douglas Adams is one of those guys whose every throwaway joke encapsulates an entire series of philosophical novels.) On the "unquestioned human right" to immortality: Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light.…
相关的科幻设定是《银河系漫游指南》系列第三部《生命、宇宙以及一切》里的克里吉特星球（Krikkit）。在那个世界里，生命在一层永久的阴云笼罩下演化。他们从没见过星空，也压根没想过头顶上还会有什么值得关注的东西。直到有一天，他们发射了一枚火箭……
The relevant sci-fi is the planet of Krikkit from the 3rd Hitch-Hikers book, Life, the Universe, and Everything. On that world, life evolved under a permanent blanket of cloud. At no point did they ever see the stars, or think that there might be something of interest above them. Until one day they sent up a rocket…
……加以增强，甚至可能添油加醋一番，免得意识层面被一堆荒唐的数据淹没。你的评论让我想起了道格拉斯·亚当斯在《生命、宇宙以及一切》里提到的“SEP 场”（别人的问题，Somebody Else's Problem）。它就像一种隐形斗篷，当人们目睹某件过于不可思议、以至于根本不可能存在的事物时，就会直接把它无视掉。（在这本书里，是一艘宇宙飞船直接降落在了一场板球比赛现场。）https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Proble...
…augment, perhaps even add some extra detail to save the conscious part from being swamped with ridiculous data. Your comment reminded me the "SEP field" (Somebody Else's Problem) from Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything". It was a sort of invisibility cloak where people perceive something so inconceivable that it can't exist, so they ignore it. (In this book, a space ship landed at a cricket match.) https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Proble...
这让我想起了《银河系漫游指南》三部曲（实际上是五部曲）里的第三本《生命、宇宙以及一切》> 克里吉特人 > 这个平时安静、礼貌、迷人且颇为异想天开的人形种族，制造了银河系历史上最具毁灭性的战争（伤亡人数超过二十“千亿亿”）。他们的母星……
It reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy's third-of-five book Life, the Universe and Everything > Krikkiters > This race of quiet, polite, charming and rather whimsical humanoids caused the most devastating war in the history of the Galaxy (with over two "grillion" casualties). Their homeworld,…
你说得对，就是出自 h2g2（《银河系漫游指南》）。那是克里吉特星（Krikkit），它是该系列第三部《生命、宇宙以及一切》的核心主线。
You are right, it is from h2g2. It's the planet Krikkit, which is a major part of Life, The Universe and Everything, the third book in the series.
我个人觉得这套系列在《生命、宇宙以及一切》之后水平断崖式下跌。《再见，谢谢你的鱼》（So Long And Thanks For All The Fish）有点东拉西扯，而《基本上无害》（Mostly Harmless）简直是纯粹致郁，给全系列结了个极其糟糕的尾。所以我个人的建议是，看到第三本就打住……
I definitely felt like the series dropped off hard after Life, The Universe, And Everything. So Long And Thanks For All The Fish was kind of meandering, and Mostly Harmless was just plain depressing and a terrible ending for the series. So my personal advice would be to stop after the third…