经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第4章 Part 2
As he skipped his boat across the seas of Damogran he smiled quietly to himself about what a wonderful exciting day it was going to be. He relaxed and spread his two arms lazily across the seat back. He steered with an extra arm he'd recently fitted just beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing.
On top of the cliffs stood a reception committee.
It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold — mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green slyph-like maximegalacticans, an octopoid physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue). All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multi-colored ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a free standing prism for the occasion.
There was a mood of immense excitement thrilling through all of them. Together and between them they had gone to and beyond the furthest limits of physical laws, restructured the fundamental fabric of matter, strained, twisted and broken the laws of possibility and impossibility, but still the greatest excitement of all seemed to be to meet a man with an orange sash round his neck. (An orange sash was what the President of the Galaxy traditionally wore.) It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.
Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.
驾驶快艇在达蒙葛兰的海上飞驰时，他自己暗暗地笑着，这将是多么美妙和激动人心的一天啊。他放松下来，两只胳膊懒洋洋地撑在座椅靠背上。他用另外的一只手掌舵，这是他最近才装上的，就在右手下面，用来提高他进行滑雪拳击运动的能力。
海岛悬崖的顶端站着一群迎接者。
他们主要由建造了黄金之心的工程师和研究人员组成——大部分属于人类，但间或有些具有两栖动物特征的生物，两三个绿色的苗条生物，一两个八脚生物，还有一个藏青色生物（藏青色是一种超级色度的蓝色）。除了藏青色生物以外，别的都穿着彩色工作服，显得华丽而耀眼。
一种狂喜的情绪使他们激动不已。他们通力合作，达到并且超越了物理法则最远的界限，重组了物质的基本结构，拉紧、拧合以及打破了可能性（概率）与不可能性（非概率）的法则。不过，最让所有人激动的是，他们即将见到一个脖子上挂着橙色饰带的人（橙色饰带是银河系总统传统的标志）。他们不会知道银河系总统实际上所拥有的权力有多么可怜：完全等于零。整个银河系中只有6个人知道，总统的作用不是掌握权力，而是吸引注意力远离这权力。
赞福德·毕博布鲁克斯把这份职责完成得非常之好。
