There are more things, which I won't reveal, that happen at the end of the novel to do with this.

与此相关的还有其他的事，不过我现在不会和你们说，因为它们在小说的最后才会出现。

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That was always the end.

不过他通常是在最后才表明态度。

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So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

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