When you come home tonight, you see your friend once again sitting on the couch eating potato chips.

今晚你回家的时候，你又见到她像往常一样吃着薯片，陷在沙发里。

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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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