One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

一个可能的解释,二元论者会说,那是你妈妈的鬼魂,她是一个非物质的灵魂,在你睡觉的时候跟你交流

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And she reflects, just above that, on the mattress that he must sleep in, and this is one of those great Pynchon sentences.

接着在他睡觉的床垫上，她思考着这是Pynchon著名的句子之一。

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suppose what happens is Linda goes to bed and what we do in the middle of night is we, well, take away that body and put some new body there.

假设琳达上床睡觉了,我们在午夜，拿走了她的肉体,换上新的肉体。

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