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| BY DOUGLAS ADAMS: | |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | AUTOSTOPERSKI VODIČ KROZ GALAKSIJU |
| Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. | Daleko u neistraženim zaleđima jedne zabačene oblasti zapadnog spiralnog kraka Galaksije nalazi se maleno, neugledno, žuto sunce. |
| Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. | Na orbiti oko njega, na rastojanju od približno devedeset sedam miliona milja, nalazi se beznačajna plavozelena planeta čiji su stanovnici, koji su nastali od majmuna, toliko primitivni da još smatraju digitalne ručne časovnike strašno zgodnom idejom. |
| This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. | Ta planeta ima - ili, da budemo precizni, imala je - jedan problem, koji se može ovako opisati: većina njenih stanovnika bila je uglavnom nesrećna. Kao rešenje ovog problema predlagane su mnoge stvari, ali sve su uglavnom bile povezane s kretanjem nekakvih malenih, zelenih komada hartije, a to je zaista čudno, jer ti mali, zeleni komadi hartije nisu i sami bili nesrećni. |
| And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. | Zbog toga je problem opstajao: ljudi su uglavnom bili zlovoljni, a mnogi su se osećali bedno, čak i oni s digitalnim časovnicima. |
| Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. | Sve je veći bio broj onih koji su počinjali da misle kako su svi napravili veliku grešku još onda kad su sišli sa drveta. A neki su i drveće smatrali lošom zamišlju i rekli su da uopšte nije trebalo ni napustiti okean. |
| And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. | A onda, jednog četvrtka, skoro dve hiljade godina pošto su izvesnog tipa prikovali za drvo zbog toga što je rekao da bi bilo sjajno kada bi ljudi, za promenu, počeli da se ponašaju ljubazno prema drugim ljudima, jedna devojka koja je za svoj groš sedela u nekom kafiću u Rikmansvortu, iznenada je shvatila u čemu su sve vreme grešili i najzad dokučila način na koji bi se svet mogao pretvoriti u dobro i srećno mesto. Ovoga puta sve je bilo u redu, stvar je bila sigurna i niko nije morao nikog da prikucava za drvo. |
| Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever. | Ali, na žalost, pre nego što je stigla da to nekome javi telefonom, došlo je do užasne, glupe katastrofe i ideja je zauvek izgubljena. |
| This is not her story. | Ova priča ne govori o tome. |
| But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. | Ali govori o toj užasnoj, glupoj katastrofi i nekim njenim posledicama. |
| It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. | To je, takođe, priča o jednoj knjizi, delu pod naslovom 'Autostoperski vodič kroz Galaksiju' - ali to nije zemaljska knjiga, niti je ikada štampana na Zemlji, a i sve do trenutka kada je došlo do te užasne katastrofe za nju nije nikada čuo niti ju je video ijedan čovek. |
| Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. | Svejedno, bila je to izuzetno značajna knjiga. |
| In fact, it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—of which no Earth-man had ever heard either. | U stvari, bila je to verovatno najznačajnija knjiga koju je ikada objavila velika izdavačka korporacija na Ursa Minoru - za koju takođe nijedan Zemljanin nikada nije čuo. |
| Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one—more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway? | I ne samo što je posredi izuzetno značajna knjiga, ona je i vrlo uspešna - popularnija je od 'Nebeskog omnibusa za kućepazitelje', bolje se prodaje nego 'Još pedeset tri stvari koje se mogu izvesti u bestežinskom stanju', a i kontroverznija je od filozofskih bestselera Ulona Kolufida 'U čemu je sve Bog pogrešio', 'Još neke Njegove najveće greške' i 'Ma, ko je uopšte taj Bog?'. |
| In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. | U mnogima od manje zatucanih civilizacija istočnog kraka Galaksije 'Autostoperski vodič' već je zamenio veliku 'Enciklopediju galaktiku' kao standardni izvor svekolikog znanja, jer iako u njemu postoji veliki broj propusta i mnogo toga što je netačno, ili bar neprikladno, on ima prednost pred ovim starijim i uštogljenijim delom u dve bitne stvari. |
| First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. | Prvo i prvo, nešto je jevtiniji; drugo, preko korica mu je ispisano 'Bez panike!' velikim, umirujućim slovima. |
| But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply. | Ali priča o tom užasnom, glupom četvrtku, priča o njegovim neobičnim posledicama i priča o tome kako su se rečene posledice neraskidivo povezale s tom značajnom knjigom počinje na vrlo jednostavan način. |
| It begins with a house. | Počinje jednom kućom. |