But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.
如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话,在这个意识里,不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿,我们都会认为他是强大的。
Well, I think what we're led to believe, is precisely nowhere, in terms of revelation.
我认为,我们的思路,恰恰被带到了尽头,如果说有什么,出乎意料的事的话。
So, I think if we said we've got melody, we've got theme, we've got bass, we've got a bunch of other stuff in the middle, that's just fine and dandy.
那么,如果说我们听到了旋律,听到主题,听到低音部,听到中间有一堆别的东西,就算令人满意了
But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.
但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的
And if that's right, if there can be parts that I have now that weren't one of the parts from which I was made, there's no particular reason to think it's going to be one of the parts that's going to continue to exist after I die.
如果这是事实,如果说现在构成我的一些零部件,并不是在我存在之前就存在的,那我们就没理由相信,这些零部件会在我死后,继续存在下去
If Barth only gestures towards that world, the politics of that decade, Pynchon actually lets us see it.
如果说Barth只是,向那个时代的,政治世界,故作姿态的话,那么Pynchon是让我们认识了它。
So, if Pynchon gives us the pattern of meaning, rather than meaning itself in this novel, he also gives us a vision of what it means to embody that pattern.
所以如果说Pynchon给了我们意义的模式在,而不是意义本身,那么他也给了我们体现那个模式意味着什么的景象。
C E G Supposing we didn't go C,E,G, C E G C but we decided to start with the E,G and then put the C up on top,C,E,G,C.
如果说我们不按照这个顺序,而是按照E,G,然后将C音放到和弦的最上方。
Whether that would ever happen, if Pynchon had decided to let us in on the secret, I don't know. Pynchon, instead, chooses to end the novel before that moment, and so we're left with a kind of emptiness.
如果说Pynchon是想要,让这成为一个谜题的话,那我也不知道,究竟出现了,没有取而代之的是Pynchon选择了,在那一幕之前让小说戛然而止,让我们陷入了,一片空白之中。
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